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2 3 17-1202 DataTrack Ad 7.5x10.indd 1 3/21/17 10:09 AM A MESSAGE FROM THE NYTB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NY THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS n behalf of us all at New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc., I extend a Thomas J. Gallo III – President warm welcome to our guests this evening. Every year at NYTB’s Annual Awards Banquet, we take the opportunity to celebrate the greatest race- Mallory Mort – Vice President track achievements of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding Program during the previous year. Our video program celebrates all the equine nominees, and O Vivien Malloy – Secretary/Treasurer we crown the year’s New York-bred divisional champions and announce the 2016 New York-bred Horse of the Year. We also take this occasion to congratulate the most Scott Ahlschwede, D.V.M. Michael Lischin successful human participants in our program. Last year’s racing calendar was filled with highlights for our program. New York- Chester Broman Joanne Nielsen breds won 106 stakes races last year at 16 racetracks from coast to coast. More than a third of the stakes victories came in open company and 16 were graded stakes Lois Engel Suzie O’Cain wins. Headliners were Haveyougoneaway, who gave New York breeders a win in the Grade 1 Ballerina at Saratoga, and Mind Your Biscuits, who left his mark on the west Seth Gregory Joan M. Taylor, DVM when he won the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita. Additionally, New York-bred Moanin, bred by Empire Equines LLC, won the Group 1 February Stakes at Tokyo Director Emeritus Racecourse. Paul A. Schosberg Some of our oldest and some of our youngest New York-breds grabbed the spot- light at various times in 2016. Senior citizens Lubash and Moonlight Song, added Jeffrey Cannizzo, Executive Director stakes wins at age 9, and I’ve already seen Lubash on the worktab this spring. Juveniles Syndergaard and Bobby on Fleek, and 3-year-old Diversify were tabbed as Thoroughbred Daily News “Rising Stars.” New York Thoroughbred Breeders The Breeder’s Cup World Championship races once again featured a strong contingent of New Yorkers: Haveyougoneaway and Wonder Gal in the Filly and Mare Sprint, Syndergaard in the Juvenile, Effinex in the Classic and Mind Your Biscuits, who 57 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 finished a good-looking third (and subsequent second via disqualification) in the Sprint. (518) 587-0777. www.nytbreeders.org Other state-bred standouts come to mind. Royal Posse ended 2016 with three stakes victories and joined the millionaires club. Joseph G. Birnbaum’s homebred Old Harbor set a new course record at Delaware Park for 1 1/16 miles on turf. Sprinter Breakin the Fever – bred, trained and owned by Debra Breed – notched three stakes wins last year, including the Leon Reed Stakes and Hudson Handicap just 10 days apart. NY THOROUGHBRED BREEDING & DEVELOPMENT FUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS In the jockey department, the red-hot Ortiz brothers combined to win 25 stakes astride New York-breds. If you are keep- ing score Irad, Jr. won 15 and Jose won 10. Hall of Famers Mike Smith and John Velazquez posted nine stakes wins between John J. Poklemba, NY Thoroughbred Breeding & Development Fund Chairman, them with New York-breds, and reigning Eclipse champion Javier Castellano rode five New York-breds to stakes victories. Member, NYS Gaming Commission As to trainers, Linda Rice, the Englehart clan, Rudy Rodriguez and others have long known that it pays to participate in the New York-program. I also want to give shout-out tonight to Charlie Baker, who had a breakout year in 2016, winning Richard Ball, Commissioner, NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets five New York-bred stakes with four different horses. Now that the “New York secret” is out – namely that New York-breds compete for more than $43,000,000 in restricted purses and have ample talent to take on open company – the likes of Chad Jeffrey A. Cannizzo, Executive Director, New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. Brown, Christophe Clement, Jimmy Jerkens, Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher are becoming increasingly invested in the program. In all last year, New York-breds made more than 21,000 starts in North America, and competed for total purses of more John A. Crotty, Member, NYS Gaming Commission than $85 million. Another statistic that continues to amaze me is that New York-breds accounted for 55 percent of all Thor- oughbred starts in the state last year. Meanwhile, our farms continue to thrive – there were 269 active farms in New York in 2016. The New York Thoroughbred Philip S. Birsh, Breeder • John Graziano Jr., Breeder • Joseph G. McMahon, Breeder Breeding and Development Fund, the principle sponsor of this event, distributed $15 million in awards last year and the average breeder’s award from the Fund was worth more than $16,000. Sen. Howard C. Nolan Jr., Breeder • Dr. William B. Wilmot, Breeder For tonight, before we all get back to our hard work, please sit back and enjoy our program. Everyone in this room should take the occasion to feel proud of the accomplishments of the best regional breeding program in the country, and, just re- Tracy Egan, Executive Director member, if you breed the best to the best in New York, only the sky is the limit.

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ichard Migliore is currently a broadcast analyst for The New York Racing Association, Inc. Known best for a stellar career as a jockey, Migliore won more than 4,400 races over a career spanning three decades. Migliore, who was born in 1964 and grew up on Long Island, got a job on a Rhorse farm near his home and decided he was going to be a jockey at age 12. He began riding in 1980, and in 1981 won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top apprentice with 298 victories. Twice the leading rider in New York – in 1981 and 1985 – Migliore won or tied as leading rider at 10 different NYRA meets, most recently taking the 2005 Aqueduct WELCOME spring meet. A fixture on the NYRA circuit, Migliore announced his retirement on June 2, 2010. Jeffrey A. Cannizzo, NYTB Executive Director “The Mig,” as he was known, rode 4,450 winners and the earners of more than $160 mil- lion in purses. Some of his biggest victories came later in his career, taking his first Breeders’ Cup race in 2008 aboard INTRODUCTION Turf Sprint winner Desert Code, and in 2009 capturing the Grade 1 Gazelle and Grade 1 Test aboard Flashing. In all, Migliore won 362 stakes, including 25 Grade 1 races. Thomas J. Gallo III, NYTB President PRESENTATION OF AWARDS A HEARTFELT THANKS TO Richard Migliore, Master of Ceremonies Our Events Planning Committee: Scott Ahlschwede, D.V.M., Lois Engel, AWARDS CATEGORIES Thomas J. Gallo III, Vivien Malloy, Joanne Nielsen, Suzie O’Cain. New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Kara Bluvas, NYTB Membership and Events Manager • Sarah Mace, NYTB Communications Manager Our Wonderful Partners • Our Event Patrons New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Male Our Emcee Richard Migliore • Saratoga National Golf Club New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Filly New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Male SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PATRONS New York-Bred Champion Turf Female SMARTEQ • James G. Doyle • Jessica Reccio Judith F. Evans • Ralph M. Evans • Charles Engel New York-Bred Champion Turf Male Joseph Lane • Renee Lane • Frank Margan • Tammy Margan New York-Bred Champion Female Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Male Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Older Dirt Female New York-Bred Champion Older Dirt Male New York-Bred Champion Steeplechaser New York-Bred Horse of the Year New York Broodmare of the Year New York-Bred Trainer of the Year New York-Bred Jockey of the Year New York Breeder of the Year

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6 7 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Bonita Bianca Ch. f., Curlin—Friendly Michelle, Artax. Breeder: Dormellito Stud. Owner: Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stable, Michael Imperio. Photo © Hoofprints, Inc. Trainer: Rudy Rodriguez. 2016 record: 4-3-0-1. $276,000. 2016 stakes: Maid of the Mist, East View. wner Michael Dubb spent $97,000 to buy Bonita Bian- ca at the Ocala Breeders Sales Company’s March sale of 2-year-olds and was paid back by the chestnut filly with back-to-back wins to start her career. OThe daughter of Curlin won a Belmont maiden race for New York-breds Sept. 22 and answered that effort with an even better one in the $250,000 Maid of the Mist Stakes also in New York-bred company a month later. Trainer Rudy Rodriguez credited Dubb and his partners for be- ing patient with the filly, who needed six months to get to the races after the sale. “When they bought her she had some shins and stuff so we com- pletely backed off of her and let her get over that,” said Rodriguez. chestnut recently returned to Rodriguez’s barn and is being point- “She was very, very slow at the beginning, a heavy filly and then she ed toward a 2017 campaign. just started turning around. Day by day we would see something “She’s done everything we asked of her,” said Rodriguez in mid- different with her.” March. “She won first time, she won a New York-bred stakes, she The improvement continued through the fall as Bonita Bianca ran a pretty good race in open company. She just came back to us STEPHANOATSEE added to her value once more with a third, after getting shuffled and we’ll have to pick out something for her. We’re lucky to have back at the gate and spending the early part of the race in last po- her in the barn.” sition, in the Grade 2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct in November. She Bred by Dormellito Stud, Bonita Bianca is out of Friendly Mi- A. P. Indy - Oatsee, by Unbridled capped the year with a runaway score in the East View for New chelle, who won the Grade 1 Prioress among other races for trainer York-breds Dec. 30. Bob Baffert. The daughter of Artax sold for $1.15 million, while The success earned her a vacation at Fair Hill Equine Thera- in foal to A.P. Indy, in 2006 and changed hands again for $42,000 Standing privately for My Meadowview Farm, LLC py Center in Maryland and some early prep work in Florida. The (while carrying Bonita Bianca) in 2013.

Filibustin Dk b./br. f. Bustin Stones—Sweet Aloha, Western Cat. Breeder: Luck Be a Lady Racing. Owner: Alan Cook. Trainer: Greg Sacco. Out of Broodmare of the Year, Oatsee 2016 record: 4-3-0-1, $176,970. 2016 stakes: Joseph A. Gimma, Key Cents. Rare Opportunity to Breed to the “Sire of Sires” Bloodline in NY acing is frequently the perfect combination of a whole lot of hard work paired with a whole lot of luck. This Half Brother to Shackleford and 3 Other GSWs rings true for owner Alan Cook, whose $10,000 claim of the Western Cat mare Sweet Aloha in 2008 produced Rstakes-winning filly Filibustin in 2014. “I went to Charles Town and claimed a horse just to have some- thing to watch,” said Cook, who lives in Virginia. “She ended up winning that race, and won (three more for Cook) so that was a good claim, and just by chance I put her out on the farm and start- 800.925.2913 ed thinking about breeding and called the guys at Brookdale Farm in Kentucky.” Filibustin ended her 2-year-old campaign on a sloppy track at SequelNewYork.com Brookdale’s team did some research, liked the mare’s pedigree Aqueduct, finishing third in the Park Avenue division New York and recommended New York stallion Bustin Stones. Stallion Series. “I loved her, she always trained hard and did her best,” said “We won our first stake easy, and won the second one easy,” said Also Standing at Sequel Cook of Sweet Aloha, “and that’s the way Filibustin is right now. Cook. “The third one was in the mud, and I didn’t think she would Just a great filly.” run that well but she finished a good third. She’s just a really sound, Filibustin won her debut by 8 1/4 lengths in September at Mon- ALPHA EMCEE FORTY TALES mouth Park and a month later romped in the Joseph A. Gimma nice filly. She does everything right.” Filibustin finished the year with earnings of $176,970, helping Stakes at Belmont Park. Trainer Greg Sacco targeted the Key Cents FREUD LAOBAN MISSION IMPAZIBLE in November at Aqueduct and she proved victorious again. Cook more than make back his initial investment and he’s looking “I didn’t know what to think of her,” said Cook. “I only paid forward to 2017. $10,000 for Sweet Aloha so I didn’t have a lot of money invested in “I’m going to win the (Kentucky) Oaks, actually,” he joked. “Ac- her. She’s a New York-bred, and I wanted to do that based on the tually, I think we’ll win a couple nice stakes at Saratoga. I hope and breeders’ awards and whatnot.” I think she’ll be a great 3-year-old.” 8 9 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Iron Mizz MORE THAN 33,000 WORKERS DEPEND Dk. b./br. f. Mizzen Mast—Iron Goddess, More Than Ready. Breeder: Stonewall Farm. Owner: Barry Schwartz. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2016 record: 7-2-1-1, $198,084. 2016 stakes: Seeking The Ante. ON NEW YORK’S EQUINE INDUSTRY eter Moore got the phone call he hates. “Come to the barn…” As the farm manager at Barry Schwartz’s Stone- wall Farm arrived at the layup barn in 2006, there was Iron Goddess hanging her head over the webbing, blood pour- Ping from her nose to the floor. “We packed her nose with cotton to stem the flow and shipped her to Cornell,” Moore remembered, and took a call from Dr. Norm Ducharme with an update on Iron Goddess’ status. “She had a fungus in her septum that created a hole,” Moore said. “When he shined a light up one nostril you could see the light in the other nostril. Aside from that, the fungus had chewed away her tear duct to her left eye, which could have caused her to lose sight.” She finished her season with two wins from seven starts and Aptly named, Iron Goddess shrugged it off and returned to the $198,084. Moore is not surprised. races to win the Stage View Stakes at Belmont Park in 2007 before “Iron Mizz was a standout as a yearling,” Moore said. “She had a retiring with three wins from nine starts and $133,425 in earnings. presence about her that comes with quality horses. She was and is a Then she really made an impact. beautifully balanced filly that glides over the ground.” In 2010, the daughter of More Than Ready produced Iron Pow- Given a break during the winter, she returned with her first er, who racked up six wins and $417,397. breeze at Belmont Park March 18. Around the farm, they’ll be “Mr. Schwartz is very much involved with the matings,” Moore watching. said. “When Iron Power proved to be such a nice horse he decided “From the time a foal hits the ground to the time they leave for to go back to Mizzen Mast.” the track every effort is made to prepare each horse for a success- Four years later, Iron Mizz was born. During her 2-year-old sea- ful career,” Moore said. “When it all comes together there’s a great son, the dark bay filly won twice, including the Seeking The Ante sense of accomplishment throughout the farm, even our mainte- Stakes at Saratoga. nance guys like to get involved by having a bet.” Miss Freeze Dk. b./br. f. Frost Giant—Reata’s Vixen, Sligo Bay. Breeder: Anthony Bruno. Trainer: David Cannizzo. Owner: Joseph Bulger, Michael Imperio and DJC Racing. 2016 record: 1-1-0-0, $75,000. 2016 stakes: Lynbrook. ne start. One stakes. One win. Miss Freeze burst onto the scene at Belmont Park in July, routing five rivals in the Lynbrook Stakes. Owned by Joseph Bulger, Michael Imperio and DJC ORacing, the daughter of Frost Giant drew off to a 6 1/4-length score in the New York-bred 2-year-old filly stakes. Miss Freeze confirmed trainer David Cannizzo’s conviction when he scratched her from a maiden race and ran her in a stakes. “We were very confident. She’s always been straightforward, just don’t get in her way, she was easy to get there. We tested her, we worked her with some older horses and she handled them pretty easy,” Cannizzo said. Despite the encouraging signs in the morning, the trainer didn’t By the following April, she was worth $150,000 to Sallusto and initially plan to start out in a stakes with his unraced juvenile filly. Albina. Her dam Reata’s Vixen won three times, produced one oth- “We actually had her in the week before and it was like a er foal to race – the 1-for-16 Laguna Vixen and sold for $1,000 in 14-horse field and the stake was going to be four or five,” Cannizzo February 2015. said. “I knew she was very talented so I wasn’t really that worried Miss Freeze exited her debut win with sore shins and Cannizzo about the fillies who had broke their maiden already. We opted to sent her to the farm for a break. Miss Freeze returned to the work- go in the stake, you saw what happened, she ran huge.” tab in March in preparation for her 3-year-old debut in the New New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association The 6-furlong Lynbrook wound up with six runners, but they all York Stallion Series Park Avenue Stakes April 22. wound up chasing Miss Freeze. “That’s the plan,” Cannizzo said. “She’s training very, very good. o amaica NY wwwnthacom Bred by Anthony Bruno, Miss Freeze enticed Webb Carroll She’s even better this year, she grew up, filled out and definitely Training Center to purchase her for $57,000 as a yearling at Sara- hasn’t lost any of her talent, I’m very positive for her 3-year-old oow NYTHA on acebook and Twitter toga in August. campaign.” 10 11 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Toni Tools B. f. Roaring Fever—Patine, Smart Strike. Breeder: Barry Ostrager. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Owner: St. Elias Stable, MeB Racing Stable and Brooklyn Boyz Stable. 2016 record: 5-3-1-0, $164,172. YOUR 1/4% 2016 stakes: New York Stallion Series Park Avenue nthony Bonomo remembers Willy Beamin. Bonomo lost the New York-bred for $25,000 at Aqueduct in March 2012. IS 100% “I said, ‘It’s Aqueduct, it’s cold, no one’s going to claim Ahim,’ ” Bonomo said. Willy Beamin went on to win his next five starts, including the Albany and King’s Bishop within three days at Saratoga that sum- mer. Yeah, Bonomo remembers. “I’d like to say we’re very smart,” Bonomo said. “But, you never APPRECIATED k n ow.” weren’t worried about her getting claimed because we weren’t sure,” That day, Bonomo lost the claiming game. Four years later, he Bonomo said. “Sometimes you get lucky. It’s like a kid who can’t hit won it. a fastball and then one day you can’t get one past him. She’s a nice Bonomo’s Brooklyn Boyz Stable, MeB Stable and St. Elias Stable little horse, a New York-bred which you always love.” dangled Toni Tools in a $40,000 maiden claimer at Belmont Park The claiming game runs deep in Toni Tools’ pedigree page. in October. Making her third start and first for Todd Pletcher, she Breeder Barry Ostrager claimed Toni Tools’ dam, Patine, for won and wasn’t claimed. “Thank God,” Bonomo said. $20,000 at Churchill Downs in 2011. She won a maiden claimer Toni Tools didn’t rack up a five-race win streak like Willy Beam- at Saratoga that summer and was retired by the following spring. in but she did produce three consecutive victories, culminating in Toni Tools brought $35,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga mixed the Park Avenue division of the New York Stallion Series in De- sale in 2014. Purchased by Crupi’s New Castle Farm, she earned cember at Aqueduct. $164,172 in her juvenile season. Toni Tools opened 2017 with a “We didn’t know what she was going to do, we thought it was second in the Maddie May Stakes and a fifth in the Franklin Square a good spot for her, we weren’t trying to get her claimed and we Stakes at Aqueduct.

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Bavaro Gr./ro. c. Freud—Chantess, Unbridled’s Song Classic Breeder: Hidden Lake Farm, Gunston Hall Farm and Anthony Grey. Owner: August Dawn Farm. Trainer: Gary Sciacca. Steakhouse 2016 record: 2-2-0-0, $123,000. 2016 stakes: NYSS Great White Way. eammates nicknamed former New York Giants tight end with Style Mark Bavaro “Rambo” during his rookie season for his re- semblance to Sylvester Stallone and physical playing style. Simply put, the future Hall of Famer was beast mode be- Sunday Jazz Brunch Tfore such a phrase existed. Bavaro the racehorse, at least to the man that arranged his breeding and raised him as a foal before selling the colt as a wean- ling, was quite the opposite. “He was always a cool horse to be around,” said Chris Bernard Classic of Hidden Lake Farm, co-breeder with Dr. Ruel Cowles’ Gunston Hall Farm and Anthony Grey. “He was kind of a pink, a strawber- good-looking runner where nothing bothers him. He’s like a bull.” Steakhouse ry roan, pink colt. He had a really good walk, very balanced, very Foaled at Bernard’s former farm in Otisville, Bavaro sold as a athletic and very pretty. As for his name, Mr. Parcells I gather was weanling for $20,000 to Machmer Hall at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton with Style saving that name for something exciting.” Saratoga fall mixed sale. Bernard wound up with Chantess after Parcells is of course Bill Parcells, also a member of the Pro Foot- the mare failed to attract a bid at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic ball Hall of Fame, a two-time Super Bowl winner and Mark Bava- December mixed sale, and later sold her privately. Sunday Jazz Brunch ro’s coach with the Giants. Parcells bought Bavaro for $85,000 on “She was a big pretty mare, but the market wasn’t strong and Happy Hour trainer Gary Sciacca’s recommendation at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton she was a no bid,” Bernard said. “I agreed to take her, Dr. Cowles Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Parcells wanted to name a liked the mare so we decided to take her back up to New York. horse after one of his favorite players and the name also suited who Tony Grey, who is my other partner, had another mare with him the colt grew up to be. that gave me an option to breed one more to Freud on a co-breed “He’s a tough horse, that’s why he’s named Bavaro,” Sciacca basis with no equity interest. So I said to Dr. Cowles, ‘let’s keep our said after a victory in the Great White Way division of the New expenses down, let’s breed Chantess to Freud, we’ll own the baby York Stallion Stakes in mid-December at Aqueduct. “He’s a big, but we’ll split the awards with Tony and see what happens.’ ”

Bobby On Fleek Ch. c., Frost Giant—Bema’s Gold, Out Of Place. Happy Hour Breeder/Owner: Louis Lazzinnaro. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 2-1-1-0. $91,000. hen you’re named for, owned by a friend of and trained by a former assistant to a Hall of Fame train- er, you come with expectations. Bobby On Fleek, connected to the legendary WBobby Frankel in all of those ways, handled the pressure with Fall aplomb in his career debut, routing nine others in a Belmont Park maiden race July 9 – which happens to be, wait for it, Frankel’s back into the birthday. “We had a chance of running July 9 open company or July 10 swing of New York-breds,” said owner/breeder Louis Lazzinnaro. “We chose 518.583.4653 July 9 because it was Bobby’s birthday and if I retire the horse right things @prime_saratoganational now, he did what he had to do.” Bobby On Fleek won that maiden race by 6 lengths, covered 6 Sunday Jazz Brunch Seasonal Menu Additions @primeatsaratoganational Bobby Frankel died of cancer in 2009, but his hands are all over furlongs in 1:10.78 and looked well on his way to a big future. Then Bobby On Fleek. Frankel and Lazzinnaro co-owned Vineyard Ha- he ran into fellow finalist Syndergaard in the Funny Cide Stakes in ven together and were close friends. “He took a horse for me one the mud at Saratoga. Bobby On Fleek finished second, and missed time in California and we got close,” is how Lazzinnaro puts it. the rest of his 2-year-old season after surgery to remove a small Trainer Chad Brown, who won the Eclipse Award as North ankle chip. America’s top trainer in 2016, worked for Frankel before going out on his own. And the chestnut colt combines Frankel’s name and a Lazzinnaro stayed patient and Bobby On Fleek went back to slang term for smooth. work over the winter in Florida and won his 3-year-old debut at The son of Frost Giant came with a glowing recommendation Aqueduct March 24. Lazzinnaro, who owns Nové restaurant (for- merly Sergio’s) in Saratoga, hopes the success continues. from J.J. Crupi of Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Florida. Bobby On 518.583.4653 Fleek was ready to run early, Crupi said, and should head to Bel- “He’s the first one I ever bred,” he said. “You need the luck, you 548 union ave, Saratoga springs • 518.5834.653 548 UNION AVE, SARATOGA@prime_saratoganational SPRINGS • 518.583.4653 mont for an early-summer start rather than wait for Saratoga with need the right connections, you need the right karma, you need to Seasonal Menu Additions some of the other 2-year-olds headed north. be around the right people, and you can have a lot of fun.” @primeatsaratoganational 14 Happy Hour 15

518.583.4653 @prime_saratoganational Seasonal Menu Additions @primeatsaratoganational TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Gold For The King B. g. Posse—Gold for the Queen, Gold Token. Breeder/Owner: Francis Paolangeli. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2016 record: 6-3-1-2, $310,568. Bavaro 2016 stakes: New York Breeders’ Futurity, Notebook. wner and breeder Francis Paolangeli has been in the game for a long time; he started racing horses in 1982 and has been breeding his own runners since the early 1990s. OHe’s seen the New York breeding program evolve and can hardly believe the progress that’s been made. “The purses are unreal,” he said. “From when I started here the purses have skyrocketed. Now the breeding program, people are breeding to good stallions and New York-breds are coming up. Congratulations Don’t think that they’re not quality. There are some very, very good Foaled at Thomas Dushas’ Pegasus Farm in Dover Plains, Gold New York-breds out there.” For The King is the second foal out of Gold For The Queen. Char- to graduates One of Paolangeli’s most talented homebreds, Gold For The lie Baker trained Gold For The Queen also, and immediately rec- Select Sales King, is taking full advantage of the healthy industry in the Empire ognized promise when her son walked into the barn. Still, Gold State. For The King exceeded the expectations of his veteran owner and As a 2-year-old in 2016, Gold For The King made six starts, all trainer. in New York-bred company. He won three of them and never ran Mind Your out of the money, earning $310,568. Gold For The King’s biggest “This baby, we liked,” Paolangeli said. “Charlie had Gold For The wins came in the New York Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes in Queen, and he liked her and he kind of liked this colt. He was really early October and the Notebook Stakes at Aqueduct in mid-No- high on him and we thought he was going to be a decent colt and Biscuits vember. he could run in the New York circuit.” Gold For The King is a son of Posse out of Gold For The Queen, Second to Bavaro in the Great White Way in December, Gold a Gold Token mare Paolangeli campaigned to five wins (two stakes) For The King worked at Belmont Park in March in preparation for and earnings of $239,136. a 2017 campaign. & Bavaro Mirai Ch. c. Trappe Shot—That’s Ok, Not For Love. Breeder: Eaton & Thorne Inc. Owner: Robert LaPenta and Madaket Stables. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 2-2-0-0, $133,800. 2016 stakes: Bertram F. Bongard. hat’s Ok was a little better as a broodmare than her name might indicate when last spring rolled around at Thorn- dale Farm in Millbrook. She’d produced a winner – and her third foal would later win by the fall – and her first Tthree foals brought decent dollars in the sales ring. Thorndale’s Jonathan Thorne liked That’s Ok. He’d liked her since her breeze at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton Calder sale of 2-year- olds, where she sold for $700,000. Thorne got the opportunity to buy her himself less than two years later as a winless 3-year-old at Select Sales Agency the 2008 Keeneland November sale. 710 Central Ave. Lexington, KY 40502 “She was a 3-year-old that Darley had when I bought her,” a runner. I figured as soon as I sold her she’d throw a runner. That’s www.selectsalesagency.com Thorne said. “I liked her because I remembered her from the the way it usually is.” 2-year-old sale in Miami. She worked in like :21 flat. She was by Mirai showed he was indeed a runner, first living up to his Carrie: (859) 983-1109 Not For Love, a big mare, maybe 17 hands.” pre-race billing with a victory going 6 furlongs in mid-August at Business being business and after receiving an offer from New- Saratoga and then adding the Bertram F. Bongard on the Empire Amy: (703) 216-8444 town Anner, Thorne opted to sell after hearing That’s Ok’s fourth Showcase card at Belmont Park less than two months later. Cam- foal, the Trappe Shot colt Mirai, brought $280,000 at the OBS Andrew: (859) 963-8379 March sale of 2-year-olds in training and was progressing well to- paigned by Robert LaPenta and Madaket Stables, Mirai won those Jay: (859) 509-8377 ward his debut. two starts by a combined 5 1/2 lengths for trainer Chad Brown. “I knew he was doing well and after what he brought at the “He was always a really straightforward horse,” said Thorne, Mind Your Biscuits Tom: (410) 349-7672 2-year-old sale, I thought the private offer was pretty good,” said who first sold Mirai at the Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale Thorne, who bred Mirai through his family’s Eaton & Thorne Inc. for $55,000. “He was a beautiful individual, great physical, what operation. “I don’t like selling mares but it just sort of happened everyone looks for. He was also nice sized, very correct and looked that way. She throws nice horses I was just waiting for her to throw fast standing still.” 16 17 17-1202 STP NYT SelectSales half pg.indd 1 3/24/17 11:46 AM TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Pat On The Back Congratulations to all of the Ch. c. Congrats—Accomplished, Awesome Again. Breeder: Sugar Maple Farm. Trainer: Ken McPeek. Owner: Harold Lerner, AWC Stable, Scott Akman, Nehoc Stable. N.Y. Thoroughbred Breeders finalists 2016 record: 6-3-1-0, $310,020. 2016 stakes: Sleepy Hollow, Aspirant. ockey Dylan Davis put it pretty simply after Pat On The Back won a New York-bred maiden race near the end of the 2016 And especially these talented horses Saratoga meet. J“He’s a good horse,” the jockey said. In just the Congrats colt’s second career start, Pat On the Back tracked and pounced, drawing who prepped for success at our farm off to score by 3 1/2 lengths. Little did Davis know, but Pat On The Back was just getting started. He was good, and getting better. Davis and Pat On the Back teamed up to win September’s Aspi- rant at Finger Lakes in their next start, and finished in a dead heat for second behind fellow finalist Mirai in the Bertram Bongard at Belmont Park in October. Next, they won the Sleepy Hollow (at one in particular was working a little better than the others,” said Filibustin nearly 21-1) at Belmont in October. Trainer Ken McPeek went big Davis, son of jockey turned trainer Robbie Davis. “This race, I kept 2-year-old filly finalist time and tried the chestnut colt in the Delta Jackpot in November him a little more relaxed because he knew what he had to do com- and the New York-bred checked in sixth behind Kentucky Derby ing out of there. He put me in a great position laying second, he hopeful Gunnevera to finish the 2016 season. relaxed in the turn and when I went to go ask him at the three- It all started at Saratoga for the colt. Davis guided him to a eighths pole, he responded great.” fourth in his career debut, less than 4 lengths behind future stakes Toni Tools winner and fellow divisional finalist Gold For The King. Owned by Pat On the Back, who opened 2017 with three defeats in Harold Lerner, AWC Stable, Scott Akman and Nehoc Stable, Pat open company including the Grade 3 LeComte Stakes at the Fair 2-year-old filly finalist On The Back impressed Davis that day and wowed him the second Grounds, has been responding great his whole life. time three weeks later. Bred by Sugar Maple Farm, he fetched $70,000 from McPeek at If you know Davis, his 22-year-old eyes lit up talking about this the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale and quickly third winner at the ultra-tough Saratoga meet. turned that into a bargain, banking $310,020 in 2016. “Most of McPeek’s babies are working very well for me and this Yeah, he’s a good horse. Bobby On Fleek 2-year-old male finalist Syndergaard Ch. c. Majesticperfection—Magic Belle, Gold Case. Breeder: Burleson Farms. Owner: Eric Fein, Harris Fein, Christopher McKenna, Guri Singh, and Jerry Walia. Super Surprise Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2016 record: 4-2-1-0, $323,800. 2016 stakes: Funny Cide. 3-year-old filly finalist odd Pletcher and successful 2-year-old Thoroughbreds go together like baseball players and home runs. Those two worlds collided in 2016 as he conditioned champion 2-year-old male finalist Syndergaard through a successful Tcampaign. Fish Trappe Road Owner Eric Fein partnered with Harris Fein, Christopher McK- enna, Guri Singh and Jerry Walia to purchase the Majesticperfec- 3-year-old male finalist tion colt for $450,000 out of the last year’s OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale. Being a hardcore New York Mets fan, Eric Fein named the colt himself and had his ears pricked and felt comfortable, so we weren’t after the team’s all-star pitcher, Noah Syndergaard. going to take away what comes easy.” Syndergaard the horse made his debut for Pletcher in early Au- With the other Syndergaard on hand at Belmont Park, Pletcher King Kreesa gust at Saratoga, where he dominated the field to win by 3 lengths. placed the colt in the Grade 1 Champagne in October. The speedy Turf male finalist He returned to the track 18 days later for the Funny Cide Stakes on colt led throughout, but lost a nose decision to Hopeful winner the Saratoga Showcase card and effortlessly blew past the competi- Practical Joke. tion to win by 10 1/4 lengths. “We were optimistic coming in,” Pletcher said after the Funny Syndergaard made his final start of the year in the Grade 1 Cide. “He’s just got so much early speed that I think he forced ev- Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, finishing fifth of 11, again after leading- ear eryone to chase him a little bit and he came with a heater today.” ly from his inside post. Syndergaard, who racked up $323,800 in earnings last year, Pletcher, clearly, can have a little fun with the name. Ocala, Florida “Johnny (Velazquez) said as fast as he’s going, he’s actually doing started his 2017 comeback at Stonestreet’s training center in Ocala, newcastlefarm.com J.J. Crupi h Toll Free: (866) 313-5400 h Cell: (352) 427-1600 it in a pretty relaxed fashion,” the trainer continued, “so he felt like Fla. before moving south to rejoin Pletcher’s string at Palm Beach even though he knew he was rolling along, he was doing it within Downs with a series of strong breezes in February and March. 18 19 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS The National Steeplechase Association congratulates Ancient Secret Ch. f. Kantharos—Privacy, Notebook. Breeder: Lambholm. Owner: Alpha Delta Stables. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 5-3-0-1, $238,339. 2016 stakes: Lake George (G2), Wild Applause. er talent was no secret at the 2015 OBS April sale of and all New York-bred 2-year-olds in training. On top of Ancient Secret’s ped- igree was Kantharos, a talented racehorse but young champions and unproven sire who stood for only $5,000. On the Hbottom side of her pedigree was the Notebook mare Privacy, who managed just three wins from 20 starts. The word was out that she could run and the hammer dropped after a bid of $225,000 from bloodstock agent Steve Young, who purchased the filly on behalf of Alpha Delta Stables. The chestnut filly was sent to Chad Brown. Some seven months later, she made a successful career debut at 6 furlongs on the Bel- The highlight of her year came when she made it four wins from TOD MARKS PHOTO mont Park turf course, winning impressively by 3 lengths. Unsur- four starts after a triumphant two-turn debut in the Grade 2 Lake prisingly, Brown made the correct decision on which surface to run George on Opening Day of Saratoga. Sent off as the 2-1 favorite, her on. she proved best in the stretch winning by 1 1/4 lengths. “It’s a typical example of getting them in the barn, observe them, Never afraid to keep his homebreds to race, Roy Lerman made they’ll tell you, she trained pretty good on the dirt, but there was the decision to sell the daughter of Privacy as a 2-year-old. something about her, she had a turf look about her, physically, I had to put the pedigree aside and just go with what I saw,” Brown “She trained very well all winter, and we wanted to see what we said. could get for her,” Lerman said. “Her mother wasn’t a large horse, Given the winter off, Ancient Secret made a successful return to but a very well-made horse. Privacy was out of (Private Fun), who the races in a 7-furlong allowance on the turf in mid-May at Bel- I had bought. She was striking, that mare.” mont Park. Stretching out another furlong a month later, the petite Ancient Secret took a winter break, did some early work at filly made a successful foray into open stakes company, winning the Bridlewood Farm in Florida and rejoined Brown’s string at Palm Wild Applause by a head. Meadows in March to gear up for her 2017 campaign.

Clipthecouponannie B. f. Uncle Mo—Lights Off Annie, Freud. Breeder/Owner: Repole Stable. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2016 record: 3-3-0-0, $132,000. 2016 stakes: Franklin Square. ike Repole owns two finalists for New York-bred 3-year-old filly champion. The prominent owner bred one, Clipthecouponannie, and bought one, Super Surprise. Owner: MAsked if there was a difference between the two, Repole an- Check Mark Stables, LLC swered honestly. “Winning is winning,” he said. “And there are very few people Trainer: who like winning more than I do.” Richard L. Valentine Then he added a caveat. “But when you win with a horse that you bred, there’s extra sat- Breeder: isfaction knowing you own the stallion and the mare, and those Andy Beadnell horses have produced a winner,” Repole said. wildly successful stallions. Uncle Mo, a 2-year-old champion, was a So give the nod to Clipthecouponannie, at least in the satisfac- no-brainer but standing Giant Surprise took conviction. The son of tion column. Giant’s Causeway is paying it back. By Repole’s champion Uncle Mo and out of Repole’s six-time “He won one race from one start, he was well bred and I really winner Lights Off Annie, Clipthecouponannie kicked off the year believe he would have been a graded stakes winner if he stayed with two winter wins at Aqueduct, a New York-bred allowance and healthy,” Repole said. “I think his success as a stallion proves he the Franklin Square Stakes. On the shelf until December, she re- turned right where she left off, securing an open allowance race at would have been a great race horse.” Gulfstream Park. Now 4-for-4, she could have a heady 2017. Named for Repole’s mother’s frugal ways, Clipthecouponannie “Clipthecouponannie is a special horse,” Repole said. “She will represents the goal of all owners/breeders. Jump into be running in our first graded stake at Aqueduct in April. If all goes “There’s a lot of excitement watching any Uncle Mo or Giant jump racing well, she can be one of the top female sprinters in the country.” Surprise perform well, whether I own the racehorse or not,” Repole For more information, please contact Bill Gallo Jr., Director of Racing With Giant Surprise, sire of Super Surprise, standing in New said. “But it is extra special when you win with one of your stallions (410) 392-0700 • [email protected] and join a growing sport York and Uncle Mo standing in Kentucky, Repole has two young, that you named, raced and had some great memories with.” 20 21 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Fingerpainter Dk. b./br. f., Nobiz Like Shobiz—Twinkie Zone, Wild Zone. Breeder: Richard and Kay Zwirn. Owner/trainer: Timothy Murphy. 2016 record: 9-4-3-0, $101,220. 2016 stakes: Niagara, Arctic Queen. Congratulations ichard Zwirn admits he was more than a little nervous as he stood near the makeshift walking ring on the Yaddo Show Grounds adjacent to Saratoga Race Course for the New York Breeders’ Sales Co.’s fall mixed sale in 2008. 2016 New York-Bred RZwirn was there to see Twinkie Zone, a then 7-year-old daughter of Wild Zone from a family he liked carrying a foal by Smooth Jazz. “It was the first time I was at a sale by myself to buy,” said Zwirn, Champion nominees who with his wife Kay owns and operates Rainbow Fields Farm in Gansevoort just outside Saratoga. “My heart is beating a mile and a minute. She walks in, looks the part and everybody’s basically left. & She’s in foal to a moderate stallion. Finger Lakes “I’m standing next to Chip Landry, who was her consignor, and est, most genuine, salt-of-the-earth guy you will ever meet,” Fin- TO ALL THOSE WHOSE EFFORTS HAVE RAISED THE STANDARDS Jimmy Miranda, who knows the family well. I bid $1,000 and then gerpainter did all her work at Finger Lakes in 2016. The Zwirns I’ve got my hand raised again while the auctioneer is going on. I sold Fingerpainter privately to Murphy, like they do with many of BY WHICH WE ARE JUDGED thought the bidding was going up but Chip says, ‘no Rich, hold on.’ their horses, but watched her from afar or in person with pride. They’re literally holding my arm down and then nothing happens “Fingerpainter is a spitting image of Twinkie Zone,” Zwirn said. and I get her for $1,000.” “She’s stamped her with everything she’s got. Conformation, body, Nearly 10 years and a few winners later Twinkie Zone is still at Rainbow Fields and in 2016 helped provide the Zwirns with their attitude. It’s wonderful. She has a full-brother that did squat on the biggest thrill in nearly two decades. Fingerpainter, a daughter of racetrack. He won a race at 60-1 and really could not outrun a fat Nobiz Like Shobiz who got her name after the Zwirn’s daughter Ja- man kind of thing. mie landed a job at the Fingerpaint marketing agency in Saratoga, “It’s all been very satisfying but we haven’t hit the home run yet. provided most of the thrills. I said I’m not attending one of these banquets until we have a final- Owned and trained by Timothy Murphy, who Zwirn says “de- ist. We’ve been members for 19 years, we’ve won races at Saratoga serves four-fifths of the credit” as the “hardest-working, most hon- but this is our first stakes horse.” STONE BRIDGE FARM Flatterywillgetyou Year-round operation on 425 acres in three separate locations: Ch. f. Flatter—Tres Chaud, French Deputy. Breeder: First Class Thoroughbreds. SHERMAN LANE TRAINING FACILITY Owner: Everything’s Cricket Racing. Trainer: Linda Rice. 2016 record: 6-4-1-0, $206,900. 2016 stakes: Bouwerie. PURINTON ROAD BROODMARE FACILITY an Mulholland always wanted to breed champion racehorses. Like many who grow up in Saratoga Springs he was instantly CLARK ROAD BROODMARE & YEARLING COMPLEX drawn to the races and to the puzzle of handicapping. That passion eventually manifested itself into a fascination with Ipedigrees, a small broodmare band and breeding and racing oper- ation called First Class Thoroughbreds. OUR 102’ X 148’ WINTERIZED INDOOR ARENA AND NEARLY ONE MILE SYNTHETIC RACE TRACK ENABLE US TO TRAIN EVERY Mulholland passed away in March 2013, about a month after DAY. WHETHER IT IS STARTING A YOUNG HORSE, A LAYUP GETTING LEGGED UP, OR ONE BEING READIED FOR THEIR RETURN a chestnut filly was born at Stonegate Stables in Fort Edward that TO THE TRACK, PLEASE CONSIDER STONE BRIDGE FARM FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS. gives her late breeder the best chance yet to be named champion. “Watching Flatterywillgetyou last year brought back a lot of memories of Ian,” said Tom Caldroney, Mulholland’s friend, for- in May at Belmont Park before a try in the Grade 3 Victory Ride. mer boss and partner in First Class Thoroughbreds. “His goal was She finished fifth and went to the sidelines before returning with to breed a New York-bred champion and I don’t know whether a second in an Aqueduct allowance late in the year. She’s back this she’s got a chance to win the award or not but when she started year for Linda Rice. 245 Purinton Road, Gansevoort, NY 12831 | Office (518) 944-4598 cranking off those wins and then won the Bouwerie Stakes it was “After Ian passed I purchased the 55 percent of Tres Chaud that [email protected] quite special. It brought back a lot of memories of Bill Johnson at I did not own from his wife and I’ve continued to own her,” he said. Stonegate, myself, Ian, Ian’s dad, his wife Kristin, going over every- Jeffrey Tucker - Owner thing. I think he’d be grinning from ear to ear, and very proud of “Flatterywillgetyou was the first one we bred to a decent stallion . . . Heidi Fischer - Farm Manager what she’s done if he was still here.” Everything she throws really likes to race. Rick Thomas - Farm Trainer Flatterywillgetyou sold as a weanling for $75,000 at the 2013 “A yearling (filly) out of her sold last year for $225,000, by Into Ron Mattia - Facilities Manager Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale, a price Caldroney was happy Mischief. Most of her foals look like her. She’s by French Deputy about, and races for Everything’s Cricket Racing. Third in her de- and I’m not an expert enough to tell you a whole lot more than that, but late in her 2-year-old season, Flatterywillgetyou clicked off four but something about the French Deputy and the Deputy Minister straight wins, the last a 1-length score in the 7-furlong Bouwerie seem to help her throw pretty horses.” 22 23 17-xxx Stonebridge Ad 7.5x10.indd 1 3/23/17 9:19 AM DAR12164 NYTB Event page-3 APR17.qxp 03/03/2017 17:57 Page 1

THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Highway Star Ch. f., Girolamo—Stolen Star, Cat Thief. Owner/Breeder: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Rodrigo Ubillo. 2016 record: 7-5-0-1. $369,000. 2016 stakes: Staten Island, Go For Wand (G3). f you were creating an advertising campaign about Thor- oughbred owning and breeding, you could do worse than use Highway Star as an example of the way things are supposed to work. IThe chestnut filly went from unraced maiden to graded stakes winner in about six months, rewarding the patience of her connec- tions Chester and Mary Broman and Rodrigo Ubillo. “It wasn’t even a year,” said Ubillo, who trained the daughter of Girolamo to five wins in seven starts. But it was still a good year. Highway Star made her first six starts in New York-bred company. She won her debut at Belmont Park May 30 and followed up with an allowance score July 13, also at Belmont. Her only two defeats came at Saratoga, when she was fourth in the New York Stallion der Gal. It was the first graded stakes win for Ubillo, and confirmed Series Statue of Liberty Stakes and third in the Fleet Indian. the trainer’s initial thoughts about Highway Star. Next came three consecutive wins – each more impressive than “As a 2-year-old, she didn’t have the best conformation so we AMC the one before it. took our time with her,” he said. “She grew up to be a better looking At Belmont in September, she trounced seven foes in a state- filly. I go by the horse and I didn’t think she was ready. She’s very big bred allowance, then won back-to-back stakes at Aqueduct. The and lengthy. I gave her the time and it paid off.” Easy as 1-2-3 first figured, as Highway Star won the new York Stallion Series Highway Star’s dam Stolen Star won three times and placed in Staten Island Stakes in November, but the second? Now that was stakes for the Bromans. She’s produced three winners, and passed Make today a red-letter day and choose Alpha or Emcee something. down some talent to her foals. Part of a field of seven in the Grade 3 Go For Wand, including “Very competitive,” Ubillo said when asked about Highway for your mare: find out more about them online.Now’s the the Bromans’ odds-on favorite Bar Of Gold, Highway Star pre- Star’s mentality. “She’s very friendly in the stall, but on the track vailed in a three-way photo finish over High Ridge Road and Won- she’s all business. She likes her job and she likes to run.” time to capitalize on their initial youngstock: Alpha’s are yearlings, while Emcee’s race this season... Super Surprise Dk. b./br. f. Giant Surprise—Miz Lynne Kelly, Langfuhr. Breeder: Allen Hallett. Owner: Repole Stable. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2016 record: 4-2-1-1, $197,500. 2016 stakes: Fleet Indian. llen Hallett teaches math and business to high school ju- niors and seniors. When the lecture turns to bonuses, Hallett pulls out his own examples. “I pull out my breeder check, ‘here you go, this is real Alife, this is my bonus check from my horse racing business. This is how bonuses work,’ ” Hallett said. “I use it right here in school. Life lessons. I show them, ‘This is how it works for me.’ When you’re a student, you always ask, ‘When am I ever going to use this in real life?’ I show them. I’m never asked that question.” It helps when you breed Super Surprise, two-time winner in 2016 and two-time New York-bred championship finalist. Owned by Repole Stable and trained by Todd Pletcher, the 3-year-old filly said. “As they’re running in the pastures, the Thoroughbred baby ALPHA EMCEE by Giant Surprise out of Miz Lynn Kelly hit the board in each of her will go flying by the Belgian baby and learn how to pass it, as soon $7,500 S&N $5,000 S&N four starts in 2016, including a big win in the Fleet Indian on the as it does, the Belgian baby will turn around and run the other way Bernardini – Munnaya (Nijinsky II) Unbridled’s Song – Surf Club (Ocean Crest) Saratoga Showcase card. and the Thoroughbred baby will turn and go hell bent for leather to For Hallett and his wife Karen, who own a self-sufficient 55-acre catch it and fly by it. By doing it, the Thoroughbred knows, ‘I can farm in Cato, it’s a perfect scenario. catch this horse in front of me.’ ” “We’ve made between $75,000 to $100,000 in breeder awards every year and our yearlings have averaged $60,000,” Hallett said. Hey, whatever works. The $55,000 yearling buy at the Fasig-Tip- Standing at Sequel Stallions, New York in NEW YORK “We make our own feed, hay, straw, corn…it’s been quite lucrative ton New York-bred sale of 2014 showcased her passing skills one 859-255-8537 or 800-925-2913 for us. It’s been a nice ride to be on.” more time in Aqueduct’s Biogio’s Rose Stakes in February, her fourth win in nine lifetime starts and the final race of her career. www.darleyamerica.com The Halletts also breed Belgian Draft Horses, including world Be a part of it champion Hallett’s T-Rex. Hallett pairs a Belgian Draft Horse foal “I wanted her to go out a winner,” Mike Repole said. “She has with a Thoroughbred foal. been bred to Uncle Mo already and is in foal. I’m really excited “Mentally it makes my Thoroughbred babies better,” Hallett about the future of that baby.” 24 25 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS

Wonderment Gr./r. f., Cosmonaut—A Wonder She Is, Three Wonders. Breeder: Michael Landers. Trainer: Ken McPeek Owner: Magdalena Racing and Chris Sterbenz; Walking L Thoroughbreds. 2016 record: 10-1-2-2, $142,060. 2016 stakes: Bourbonette Oaks (G3). ichael Landers found himself in the exact right place at the right time in December 2009. CONGRATULATIONSto all the 2016 NY-Bred Divisional Champion Nominees “I actually was getting out of the business entirely, because I had gotten to the point where I had four Mmares and had yearlings and babies,” Landers said. “This was right at the time that the financial crisis hit. I was getting out of the game and effectively sold everybody, and then right as I was doing that, HAVEYOUGONEAWAY went to Fasig-Tipton Midlantic. “They were just giving mares away, this was right at the crux of 2016 Grade 1 Winner all the difficulties. It was a bad sale and I don’t know why I went, but I went. I think I had $1,000 in my pocket, literally the upset price. brook Stakes at Belmont Park. In her second start as a 3-year-old, Bred by Andy & Susan Beadnell There were a lot of mares no bidding. I actually saw a mare that no she won the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park. bid, went and looked at her and just really liked her, didn’t know “That was a definitely a really fun day,” Landers said. “I don’t Sold by McMahon of anything about her other than what was on her page. I ended up even know if I’d bred an allowance winner. That was very exciting buying her out of that sale.” to say the least.” Saratoga Thoroughbreds That mare was A Wonder She Is, a winner of two races in eight Wonderment didn’t win again in 2016, but finished a fast-clos- starts. About three years later the mare foaled a Cosmonaut filly. ing second in the Dogwood in September at Churchill Downs. She “From Day 1, we really liked her,” said Landers, who bred the returned to New York for her next two starts, a second to Que- filly. “She was probably the best foal that she had still to this day. zon in the Iroquois on Empire Showcase Day in her final start for She has a yearling that is very nice, and that would be the only one Magdalena Racing and Chris Sterbenz. Walking L Thoroughbreds to compare to Wonderment.” bought Wonderment for $185,000 at Fasig-Tipton November and Sold as a weaning for $24,000, Wonderment won her only two raced her to a fifth in the Staten Island division of the New York starts at 2 in 2015, 10 days apart, in a maiden race and the Lyn- Stallion Series shortly after the auction.

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26 27 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Converge B. c., Sidney’s Candy—Atlantic Ocean, Stormy Atlantic. Breeder: SF Racing. Owner: Paul Pompa Jr. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 6-1-0-1. $114,160. 2016 stakes: Palm Beach (G3). ull up Converge’s first start of 2016 and some footage of the wild horse roundup from The Man From Snowy River. GIANT SURPRISE They’re pretty much the same thing, minus the snow, cow- Giant’s Causeway –Twisted Sis, by A.P. Indy $5,000 LFSN boys and bull whips anyway. PFrom post 11 in the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park, Converge broke a little bit in the air and quickly found him- self last of 13 runners. By the first turn, he’d moved to 12th but had plenty of work to do. Jockey Javier Castellano stayed inside up the backstretch and AEI 2.21 was seventh on the final turn, then sixth, then fifth behind a block- ade of horses. Castellano went inside of two horses and outside of two others to get to the front in the final sixteenth of a mile and win Highest in New York! by three-quarters of a length. Higher than Freud, Bellamy Road, and Big Brown Somewhere, owner Paul Pompa Jr. smiled. He lived up to that promise by winning the Palm Beach, a “When you run a grass horse in the winter time at Gulfstream, $150,000 stakes at 1 1/16 miles on the turf in February. Though or even a dirt horse, it’s always a 10-, 12-, 14-horse field,” said the he didn’t break through with another win – despite quality tries in owner. “You’ve got to have a good horse and you’ve got to get a good trip.” the Transylvania at Keeneland, American Turf at Chruchill Downs, Pompa got both that day as Converge mowed down Giant Run – Pennine Ridge at Belmont and Kent at Delaware – Converge who went on to win four stakes in 2016– in the final strides. wrapped up 2016 with a third in New York-bred allowance compa- Pompa purchased Converge through Xavier International ny at Saratoga and aims toward a return to action this spring. Bloodstock at Keeneland September 2014. Bred by SF Racing, the “We kept him in open company, which isn’t easy, and I think son of Sidney’s Candy won his debut in September 2015. He closed when we stopped with him he just needed a break,” said Pompa. his 2-year-old season with a second in the Awad Stakes at Belmont “I’ve been lucky enough to have some nice New York-breds and Park to hint at bigger things ahead. Converge could be a very nice horse. It’s exciting.”

Fish Trappe Road Gr./ro. c. Trappe Shot—Electric Shock, Cure the Blues. Breeder: Rhapsody Farm and Jon Davis. Owner: Martin Racing Stable. Trainer: Bret Calhoun. 2016 record: 6-2-1-1, $465,920. 2016 stakes: Dwyer (G3). ret Calhoun joked with the members of Martin Racing Stable last spring, right around the time many owners are hoping to get close to the dream of competing in America’s greatest horse race. B“Well, we were supposed to run at Keeneland in an a-other-than Congratulations to 2016 New York-bred Champion 3YO Filly nominee: and it didn’t fill,” Calhoun recalled last summer, standing just un- der the eve of his shedrow on the Oklahoma Training Track while SUPER SURPRISE his small string that included Fish Trappe Road relaxed after morn- Won her 4YO debut in Biogio’s Rose Stakes Feb. 5 at Aqueduct, giving her a stakes win every year she has raced. ing training. “The race that we wound up in happened to be on Derby Day. I kidded everybody, I said, ‘I told you he’d run the first Saturday in May. I just didn’t say what race.’ It was an allowance “He’s come around a lot mentally and physically,” Calhoun said. race that day and he ran a very impressive race that day.” “He’s a narrow-bodied horse, a lighter-bodied horse but he’s twice Fish Trappe Road did compete at Churchill Downs on Derby the horse now that he was last year at this time. Mentally he’s much Day, winning that allowance race less than an hour after Nyquist more focused. We always laughed that he had A.D.D. He does but rolled home in the Kentucky Derby. The victory, by 5 1/4 lengths he’s way, way, way more focused and professional this year. He used in a quick 1:22.27 after a nearly four-month layoff, started a strong Erin Robinson 859.421.7531 Lere Visagie 518.851.6616 to just want to play 24-7. He’s gotten stronger physically and men- stretch for the son of Trappe Shot. He backed up the allowance win 5384 Route 9H-23 Hudson, New York 12534 with a second (at 25-1) to Tom’s Ready in the Grade 2 Woody Ste- tally he’s gotten a lot better.” www.rockridgestud.com phens on Belmont Stakes Day and a victory in the Grade 3 Dwyer Rhapsody Farm in Plymouth, where he was foaled, and Jon Da- © BARBARA LIVINGSTON vis bred Fish Trappe Road in partnership. The colt became his sire’s going a mile, also at Belmont. Also Standing: NEW FOR 2017 first stakes winner in the Dwyer and is one of five winners from Those efforts preceded Fish Trappe Road’s sixth behind eventual D’ FUNNYBONE | HONORABLE DILLON | MICROMANAGE | SOARING EMPIRE | TRINNIBERG | WAR DANCER champion male sprinter Drefong in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop and seven foals to race out of the stakes-winning mare Electric Shock. a close third to Texas Chrome and Sticksstatelydude in the Grade Fish Trappe Road opened 2017 with a third in the Hot Springs 3 Oklahoma Derby. Stakes at Oaklawn Park March 11. 28 29 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS

Flexibility Hit It Once More B. c. Bluegrass Cat—Santa Vindi, Vindication. B. c. Hard Spun—Sunday Geisha, Sunday Break. Breeder: WinStar Farm. Breeder: JMJ Racing Stables. Owner: Klaravich Stable and William Lawrence. Owner: August Dawn Farm. Trainer: Gary Sciacca. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 7-4-0-0, $348,190. 2016 record: 3-1-0-0, $152,500. 2016 stakes: Jerome (G3). 2016 stakes: New York Derby, Albany. on’t stop if you’ve read this before, and really who doesn’t ary Sciacca likes to joke that training for Bill Parcells is know this story? difficult because the retired Hall of Fame and two-time One of the world’s leading breeding operations – rec- Super Bowl champion coach is so used to winning and ognized as such earlier this year with the Eclipse Award perhaps a bit demanding of results. Dfor outstanding breeder – maintains a presence in New York and GSciacca delivered some very positive results for Parcells’ Au- one of the products of the initiative is a graded-stakes winning gust Dawn Farm in 2016, the best coming from Hit It Once More, 3-year-old. including back-to-back victories in the summer that contributed If it sounds like Funny Cide, one of the poster horses for the significantly to the coach’s best year as an owner by at least three New York breeding industry and winner of the 2003 Kentucky touchdowns. Derby and Preakness Stakes, it should. Funny Cide was bred by Stud before relocating to California in 2015. Horses owned by Parcells, whose NFL head-coaching career in- “He kind of surprised me that day,” Sciacca said of the New York WinStar Farm, Kenny Troutt’s Kentucky-based operation, and An $80,000 Saratoga New York-bred yearling and a $185,000 cluded jobs with the New York Giants, New England Patriots, New Derby. “I thought he’d win there, but I didn’t think he’d win with foaled and raised at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Sara- purchase at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Florida 2-year-old sale, Flexi- York Jets and Dallas Cowboys, won a dozen races in 2016, placed in that kind of authority. He got himself together, he’s running good. toga Springs. bility won his debut and placed in the Grade 2 Nashua as a 2-year- 14 more and earned $856,842. He’d won nine races in five seasons Seems like the further we went the better.” Flexibility is the latest New York-bred product of WinStar to old for Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stable and William Lawrence and as an owner through 2015. Bred by JMJ Racing Stables and foaled at Sequel Stallions in achieve success in his home state. Hit It Once More, a son of Hard Spun Sciacca helped Parcells trainer Chad Brown. The bay colt put his name in the early Triple Hudson, Hit It Once More is out of the stakes-winning Sunday A son of Bluegrass Cat who got the year off to a fast start with a purchase for $90,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-year- victory in the Grade 3 Jerome at Aqueduct, Flexibility might not be Crown picture the second day of 2016 in the Jerome, then finished olds in training sale, won the $164,000 New York Derby in late July Break mare Sunday Geisha. The bay colt won the New York Derby as looming a presence on the New York breeding program as Fun- fourth in the Grade 3 Withers and seventh in the Grade 1 Wood at Finger Lakes and the $250,000 Albany in late August at Saratoga. at 1 1/16 miles and in the 9-furlong Albany was just as good racing ny Cide but as a son of a stallion who stood in the state he’s perhaps Memorial before going to the sidelines. The Albany victory came with Parcells in the stands on Saratoga on the lead to win by 3 3/4 lengths. an even more genuine product. Flexibility, one of three winners out of a half-sister to Grade 1 Showcase Day, while the New York Derby came after Sciacca made “Gary picked him and went over budget and that’s how he got Flexibility was foaled at Vinery New York at Sugar Maple Farm, winner and successful sire Golden Missile, is on the comeback trail the trek to western New York from Saratoga in his car. The trainer his name,” Parcells said after the Albany. “He kept telling me, ‘Bill, one of two farms where WinStar’s Grade 1 winner Bluegrass Cat for a 2017 campaign with breezes this winter for Brown at Palm looked back at Hit It Once More’s 6 1/4-length victory at Finger we’ve got to hit it once more, hit it once more,’ so once we got him, stood during his three seasons in the state along with Rockridge Meadows in Florida. Lakes two days before the Albany with mild alarm. I said, ‘That’s his name.’ ”

Governor Malibu Mind Your Biscuits Ch. c., Malibu Moon—Akilina, Langfuhr. Ch. c. Posse—Jazzmane, Toccet. Breeder: Richard Leahy, Oak Bluff Stable. Breeder: Jumping Jack Racing. Owner: M. Scott Summers, Owner: Jump Sucker Stable and Oak Bluff Stable. Hope Summers, Daniel Summers, J Stables, Head of Plains Partners. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2016 record: 9-2-4-0. $489,750. Trainer: Robert Falcone Jr. 2016 stakes: Gander. 2016 record: 9-4-3-1, $740,400. 2016 stakes: Malibu (G1), Amsterdam (G2). e was not the busiest governor of 2016, but Governor Malibu gave Cuomo and some of the others a real run hen Mind Your Biscuits won the Grade 2 Am- with nine starts from February to November with a tilt sterdam Stakes last July at Saratoga Race Course, at the big time in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes and Tra- co-owner Scott Summers’ career as a racehorse Hvers Stakes about halfway through the campaign. owner reached new heights. After winning a November 2015 maiden race at Aqueduct, the W“I’ve been coming here for so many years, and to have this expe- chestnut colt launched his 3-year-old season with a win in the Gan- rience, I never, never would have thought about it,” Summers said. der Stakes also at Aqueduct in February. “I’ve been coming to Saratoga for at least 40 years and I’ve been Trainer Christophe Clement called for a road trip next time and owning horses for the last 10 or so. ‘Biscuits’ is the only horse I’ve the son of Malibu Moon delivered with a nose win over Awesome He’s a fun horse to be around. He’s a fun horse. He stays and he’s a had that’s performed at this level.” and daughter-in-law Hope, are in the ownership group and Chad Speed in Laurel Park’s Federico Tesio Stakes April 9. The race came very hard-trying kind of horse.” Little did Summers know, winning the Amsterdam was just the now trains Mind Your Biscuits, recently taking over from Robert with an automatic entry into the Preakness at Pimlico the next At Saratoga, Governor Malibu finished second in the Jim Dan- beginning for Mind Your Biscuits. In the rest of his 3-year-old sea- Falcone Jr. The family partnered with J Stables early in the venture month, but Governor Malibu lost out on that opportunity because dy and fifth behind Arrogate in the Travers after bypassing what son, the son of Posse finished second in the Grade 3 Gallant Bob and added Head of Plains Partners before the Breeders’ Cup. of a disqualification. Stewards deemed he interfered with Awe- would have been an easier spot in the Albany for New York-breds. Stakes at Parx before finishing third (moved up to second) behind “We were going to pinhook him and nobody wanted him,” Scott some Speed, demoting Governor Malibu to second in the $100,000 Drefong in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint in November. Mind In the fall, the chestnut won a New York-bred allowance, finished Summers said. “We said, ‘All right, nobody wants him, we’ll race stakes. Your Biscuits closed 2016 by winning the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Clement regrouped and sent Governor Malibu out to finish a second in the Empire Classic and was seventh in the Grade 3 Dis- Santa Anita Dec. 26. him,’ and that’s when we went to J Stables for the partnership and hard-charging second in the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont May covery before getting a break for the winter. With eyes on a 2017 The adventure took another turn to start 2017 as Mind Your Bis- it worked out great. This is the first horse I’ve ever had that’s won a 14. That performance was good enough to earn a ticket to the Bel- debut, Governor Malibu was working steadily at Payson Park. cuits won the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan March graded stakes race. It’s just an extraordinary experience.” mont, where he finished fourth behind Creator, Destin and Lani Bred by Richard Leahy’s Oak Bluff Stable and foaled at Berk- 25, putting him in the discussion as the world’s top sprinter. It was Bred by Jumping Jack Racing and foaled at Sue and Gary Lun- while checking twice in the final quarter-mile. shire Stud, Governor Malibu sold for $175,000 at Keeneland Sep- his fifth win from 15 lifetime starts and put him over the $2 million dy’s Cedar Ridge Farm in Pine Plains, Mind Your Biscuits is one of “He ran a superb race in the Belmont, no racing luck,” said tember as a yearling and then brought $135,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s mark in career earnings. three winners from three foals to race out of the unraced Toccet Clement in August. “He always gives a good account of himself. March sale of 2-year-olds. Mind Your Biscuits is a family affair. Scott’s sons Chad and Dan mare Jazzmane. 30 31 MILLIONAIRE GRADE 1 SON OF WAR FRONT

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32 33 TURF FEMALE FINALISTS Ancient Secret Ch. f. Kantharos—Privacy, Notebook. Breeder: Lambholm. Owner: Alpha Delta Stables. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 5-3-0-1, $238,339. 2016 stakes: Lake George (G2), Wild Applause. er talent was no secret at the 2015 OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training. On top of Ancient Secret’s ped- igree was Kantharos, a talented racehorse but young and unproven sire who stood for only $5,000. On the Hbottom side of her pedigree was the Notebook mare Privacy, who managed just three wins from 20 starts. The word was out that she could run and the hammer dropped after a bid of $225,000 from bloodstock agent Steve Young, who purchased the filly on behalf of Alpha Delta Stables. The chestnut filly was sent to Chad Brown. Some seven months later, she made a successful career debut at 6 furlongs on the Bel- The highlight of her year came when she made it four wins from mont Park turf course, winning impressively by 3 lengths. Unsur- four starts after a triumphant two-turn debut in the Grade 2 Lake prisingly, Brown made the correct decision on which surface to run George on Opening Day of Saratoga. Sent off as the 2-1 favorite, her on. she proved best in the stretch winning by 1 1/4 lengths. “It’s a typical example of getting them in the barn, observe them, Never afraid to keep his homebreds to race, Roy Lerman made they’ll tell you, she trained pretty good on the dirt, but there was the decision to sell the daughter of Privacy as a 2-year-old. something about her, she had a turf look about her, physically, I had to put the pedigree aside and just go with what I saw,” Brown “She trained very well all winter, and we wanted to see what we said. could get for her,” Lerman said. “Her mother wasn’t a large horse, Given the winter off, Ancient Secret made a successful return to but a very well-made horse. Privacy was out of (Private Fun), who the races in a 7-furlong allowance on the turf in mid-May at Bel- I had bought. She was striking, that mare.” mont Park. Stretching out another furlong a month later, the petite Ancient Secret took a winter break, did some early work at filly made a successful foray into open stakes company, winning the Bridlewood Farm in Florida and rejoined Brown’s string at Palm Wild Applause by a head. Meadows in March to gear up for her 2017 campaign.

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Fourstar Crook B. f. Freud—Avril a Portugal, D’Accord. Breeder: Kathleen Feron. YOUR MEMBER Owners: Gary Aisquith, Bethlehem Stables and Michael Dubb. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 4-4-0-0, $255,000. 2016 stakes: Yaddo, John Hettinger. ourstar Crook got her first taste of victory in her fourth start for trainer Chad Brown in October 2015 and has DISCOUNTS since refused to finish anywhere but the winner’s circle. The Freud filly completed an undefeated 4-year-old campaign A PERCENTAGE OF EACH SALE IS RETURNED TO THOROUGHBRED RACING. Fwith wins last year in the $150,000 Yaddo Stakes in August at Sara- toga and the $125,000 John Hettinger Stakes in October at Belmont Park. It only takes a small Owner Michael Dubb partnered with Mike Caruso’s Bethlehem Stables and Gary Aisquith to purchase the filly for $110,000 at the investment to make your Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-year-olds in training sale in 2014. Now she’s in the midst of a six-race winning streak dating to After repeated success with Freud offspring in the past, Dubb ea- 2015 out of nine total starts, with earnings of $349,050. After clos- equine farm beautiful. gerly added Fourstar Crook to his roster and has been thrilled with ing 2015 with two wins, she opened last year with a pair of allow- the outcome. ance triumphs before heading to New York-bred stakes company. “We’re very proud of her,” said Dubb. “The filly was picked out Dubb looks forward to a 5-year-old campaign, hoping to extend for me by Gary Young and interestingly enough she was a little last year’s achievements. Toward that 2017 campaign, she had her slow to come around. She lost her first couple of races, but when the light bulb had clicked on she actually broke her maiden against first published work of the year March 20 at Belmont Park. open company, which she didn’t have to, but I thought she was “I think this year she’s probably earned the opportunity to com- good enough. I like Freud a lot and she’s worked out well.” pete against open company and in graded-stakes competition,” Bred by Kathleen Feron out of the D’Accord mare Avril A Por- said Dubb. “It is gratifying because I am kind of involved in all tugal, and foaled at Akindale Farm in Pawling, Fourstar Crook sold spectrums of the game. I’m trying to participate at all the different as a yearling for $55,000 at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred fun levels with horses I think have a good shot to win and I’m very sale in Saratoga. happy about it and love the New York-bred program.”

Old Harbor Dk. b./br. m., Raffie’s Majesty—Royal Mast, Roy. Breeder/Owner: Joseph Birnbaum. Trainer: Russell Cash. 2016 record: 7-3-0-0. $199,108. 2016 stakes: George Rosenberger Memorial, Ticonderoga. ld Harbor’s 2016 season ended with a ride in the horse ambulance, but turned out just fine as owner/breeder Joe Birnbaum and trainer Russell Cash retired the now 6-year-old mare to life as a broodmare. OIt’s a happy ending, but Cash will miss her. “Oh boy, I hated to see her go,” said the New Jersey-based train- From custom wood structures to heavy duty tilt trucks, outdoor furniture, er. “You know how that goes. She was the best horse I had in the job boxes, utility and decorative waste cans and so much more, Suncast barn, the best horse I had in a long time, maybe the best horse I Commercial offers a diverse stable of products tough enough to take on any ever had.” job – any time, any place, anywhere. She spent four seasons with Cash, winning eight of 25 starts and earning $607,585. Her 2016 included an allowance win at Delaware Old Harbor began her career at Monmouth Park in 2013, and Park in August, another Delaware vicory in the George Rosenberg- won at Saratoga that summer. The next year she won a New York SAVINGS FROM OTHER GREAT PARTNERS er Memorial (breaking an 11-year-old track record) and the sea- Stallion Series stakes and a state-bred allowance at Belmont. In son-ending score in the $200,000 Ticonderoga for New York-breds 2015, she won twice more including a score in the John Hettinger at Belmont Park in October. She won by 6 3/4 lengths in the sloppy, Stakes at Belmont. off-the-turf stakes, but emerged with an ankle injury. Last year started with two defeats, but kicked into gear with Cash said she could have come back, but supported the retire- ment decision. The 17-hand mare will be bred to Freud. the two Delaware wins and then the Ticonderoga. Her best efforts “It was probably something she could have come back from, but came on or near the pace, where her long stride could be put to use. it wasn’t worth the risk,” said Cash. “She’ll make a good broodmare, “She liked it right there (on the lead), that’s just the way she was,” and maybe I’ll get the baby to train someday.” said Cash. “She couldn’t open up if she was behind horses. She Call 866-678-4289 Birnbaum used to mainly raise horses in New Jersey, but moved couldn’t stride out and she was smart enough to know she couldn’t. www.ntraAdvantage.com his mares to New York with the growth of the program and has Once it opened up in front of her, she would really stretch out and for more information been rewarded. turn it on.” @NTRA 36 37 TURF MALE FINALISTS Converge B. c., Sidney’s Candy—Atlantic Ocean, Stormy Atlantic. Breeder: SF Racing. Owner: Paul Pompa Jr. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2016 record: 6-1-0-1. $114,160. 2016 stakes: Palm Beach (G3). ull up Converge’s first start of 2016 and some footage of the wild horse roundup from The Man From Snowy River. They’re pretty much the same thing, minus the snow, cow- boys and bull whips anyway. PFrom post 11 in the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park, Converge broke a little bit in the air and quickly found him- self last of 13 runners. By the first turn, he’d moved to 12th but had plenty of work to do. Jockey Javier Castellano stayed inside up the backstretch and was seventh on the final turn, then sixth, then fifth behind a block- ade of horses. Castellano went inside of two horses and outside of two others to get to the front in the final sixteenth of a mile and win by three-quarters of a length. Somewhere, owner Paul Pompa Jr. smiled. He lived up to that promise by winning the Palm Beach, a “When you run a grass horse in the winter time at Gulfstream, $150,000 stakes at 1 1/16 miles on the turf in February. Though or even a dirt horse, it’s always a 10-, 12-, 14-horse field,” said the he didn’t break through with another win – despite quality tries in owner. “You’ve got to have a good horse and you’ve got to get a good trip.” the Transylvania at Keeneland, American Turf at Chruchill Downs, Pompa got both that day as Converge mowed down Giant Run – Pennine Ridge at Belmont and Kent at Delaware – Converge who went on to win four stakes in 2016– in the final strides. wrapped up 2016 with a third in New York-bred allowance compa- Pompa purchased Converge through Xavier International ny at Saratoga and aims toward a return to action this spring. Bloodstock at Keeneland September 2014. Bred by SF Racing, the “We kept him in open company, which isn’t easy, and I think son of Sidney’s Candy won his debut in September 2015. He closed when we stopped with him he just needed a break,” said Pompa. his 2-year-old season with a second in the Awad Stakes at Belmont “I’ve been lucky enough to have some nice New York-breds and Park to hint at bigger things ahead. Converge could be a very nice horse. It’s exciting.” Doctor J Dub B. g. Sharp Humor—Anotherbusride, Delineator. Breeder: Dr. Patricia Purdy, Edwin Edelberg and Mara Edelberg. Owner: Drawing Away Stable. Trainer: Jena Antonucci. 2016 record: 17-2-4-4, $290,905. 2016 stakes: Turf Monster (G3), Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint. t was a year of firsts for Doctor J Dub and the team around him. Everything started New Year’s Day when Drawing Away Stable claimed the bay gelding for $16,000 at Gulfstream Park. Making 16 more starts after he was claimed, the now 7-year- Iold was consistently competitive against allowance company for much of the year despite only posting two victories. The victories came in stakes, the Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint at Gulfstream and the the Grade 3 Turf Monster at Parx. “His whole journey has been fun with us,” said trainer Jena Antonucci, who collected her first graded stakes win and helped Turf Monster, where he sprung another big upset at 23-1. Drawing Away record its first stakes win as a solo owner. “He’s “At Parx, he got things his way, and he has a never-say-die atti- probably one of the most difficult horses we’ve ever had to train, tude, he’ll give you everything he has,” Antonucci said. “That day because he’s an overachiever in everything he wants to do.” obviously was special. He showed up and fought from gate to wire Doctor J Dub certainly has become an overachiever, having and really relaxed well under Sheldon (Russell) and did everything not made his debut until he was a 4-year-old, and not breaking the right way. He runs his best race relaxed. I think that was part of his maiden until August of his 5-year-old campaign. Now a graded stakes winner, he earned $290,905 in 2016. it, one of the big keys at Parx was Sheldon got him to relax.” Doctor J Dub won the Umphrey at 28-1 in July. He ventured Bred by Dr. Patricia Purdy and Edwin and Mara Edelberg, the north after that for three allowance races at Saratoga – two against son of Sharp Humor was foaled at Patricia and Chris Purdy’s Ivy state-breds – the latter two of which came off the turf due to rain. League Farm in Ithaca. He didn’t win any of the three, but finished second and third in He’s one of three winners and the first stakes winner from three the two main-track races. starters out of Anotherbusride, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Ta- Doctor J Dub got back on the turf in September and won the li’sluckybusride. 38 39 TURF MALE FINALISTS Kharafa B. g., Kitalpha—Exquisite Cassie, King of Kings. Breeder: High Meadow Farm. Owner: Paul Braverman and Timothy Pinch. Trainer: Tim Hills. 2016 record: 7-1-2-1, $155,360. 2016 stakes: Ashley T. Cole. fter the 2013 season, when Kharafa was a finalist in this division for the first time, the story went like this… Tim Hills didn’t know much about Kharafa when the 2-year-old walked in the barn. The trainer quickly noticed Athe gelding’s large, flat feet however, and recognized a potential affin- ity for racing on the turf. “As a young horse he trained really well on the dirt, but I didn’t have much of a line on him,” Hills said. “His sire Kitalpha is primarily turf, but I ran him on the dirt first time out. He ran poorly because he was just spinning his wheels on the dirt so we backed off of him and didn’t run him again until fall on the grass. That was when we Durocher went to the window. Kharafa went to the lead in the realized he was definitely a grass horse.” stretch. And Durocher had a score. Kharafa paid $31.80 to win. After the 2014 season, the story went like this… “He made $40,000 or something, he made more with his bet than Geldings as tough and battle tested as Kharafa don’t often need he did with the purse,” Hills said. “I’ll never forget watching them excuses. The now 6-year-old son of Kitalpha gets a pass for starting count out the hundred dollar bills. It stunned me.” the season with rare back-to-back defeats after a 2013 campaign that As for 2016, yet another year as a divisional heavyweight, saw him finish first, second or third in six of his seven starts. Kharafa added another single to his greatest hits collection, win- “We had an issue with him hitting himself with an opposite hoof ning the Ashley T. Cole for the third time and hitting the board in and he sustained some cuts on the inside of his hind legs that were the Kingston, Grade 3 Oceanport and West Point. He lost the latter really bothersome,” trainer Tim Hills said. two decisions by a neck and a nose. After the 2015 season… The Cole victory ticked Kharafa past $1 million in career earn- Larry Durocher kept asking his trainer about what he thought of ings, becoming one of 38 New York-breds to hit the milestone. his homebred making his turf debut. It was Sept. 16, 2011. Hills said And, just so you can get ahead, Kharafa took the winter off and he liked him, said he was training well, doing well. has posted two breezes in preparation for his 8-year-old debut.

King Kreesa Gregg Falk, Dk. b./br. g, King Cugat—Storm’s Advance, Storm Creek. Breeder: Horse Partners. Owner: Gerald and Susan Kresa. Trainer: David Donk. 2016 record: 9-2-1-0, $257,850. 2016 stakes: Forbidden Apple, West Point. ing Kreesa would make a good starting pitcher. He’d be a crafty veteran who shows up every spring, takes a worn glove and some dusty cleats out of an old duffle bag and fires sliders, curveballs – and the occasional fastball – Kpast the kids who wonder how the old guy does it. He does it with skill. And in 2016, he took the analogy a step further by winning on five days’ rest for owners/breeders Gerald and Susan Kresa and trainer David Donk. The 7-year-old finished a solid fourth in the Grade 1 Fourstardave at Saratoga Aug. 20 and returned to win the West Point Aug. 26. Donk paid credit to jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., who They didn’t want to, or have to. Ortiz had to ride Offering Plan was on board for the Fourstardave, and the horse. in the West Point, handing the reins to younger brother Jose but “When Irad jumped off him the other day he was adamant that that didn’t faze King Kreesa. He led at every call and won a four- I run him back, and he really got me thinking about it,” Donk said way scramble at the finish by a nose over Kharafa with Offering last summer. From there it was up to the horse. King Kreesa re- Plan a neck back in third. covered quickly, and gave his trainer every indication that another King Kreesa’s second win in the West Point (to go with his 2014 good effort loomed. Donk even had a momentary flashback to his mentor Woody score) provided the main highlight to his 7-year-old campaign, but Stephens, who won the Met Mile and Belmont Stakes with Con- the year also came with a repeat win in the Forbidden Apple (by a quistador Cielo on an even tighter (by one day) schedule. nose) at Belmont Park in July. “I was like, this is karma, and it really had me thinking,” Donk The 11-time winner of more than $1.3 million in purses was said. “You know, he was good on Sunday, he was good on Monday prepping for a 2017 campaign at Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Flor- when we entered and I told (the Kresas) we have 45 minutes to post ida. 7 time, we can scratch him if we want to.” As usual, expect his fastball to have some life on it. 40 41 TURF MALE FINALISTS Macagone B. g. Artie Schiller—Isabel Away, Skip Away. Owner/Breeder: Trinity Farm. Trainers: Michelle Nihei, Carl Domino, Bill Mott. 2016 record: 6-3-0-1, $226,425. 2016 stakes: Danger’s Hour, Artie Schiller. ike father, like son. Macagone won three times in 2016, each win coming at 1 mile on the turf. Macagone is out of Isabel Away, whose only win came at 1 1/4 miles. Macagone is by Artie Schiller, whose crowning achievement was a win Lin the 2005 Breeder’s Cup Mile. Macagone closed out his stellar 2016 with a win in the Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct. “Isabel Away had a late foal that year, so she was going to get to (Artie Schiller) pretty late in the breeding season,” said Thomas Egan of Trinity Farm, owner and breeder of the gelding. “He had a funny Irish groom, and he said, ‘Artie’s getting kind of tired.’ I said ‘uh-oh, so he’s not getting all the mares.’ He said, ‘no, the only ones into the winner’s circle. So she never practiced, and then when he he likes are the gray mares.’ And I said, ‘Isabel Away is gray.’ First won, I said ‘You’re going to lead him into the winner’s circle.’ So, cover, she took.” that was a highlight, she thanked me for that many times.” Coming off a four-month layoff, Macagone made a grand return Jaye Egan picked out Isabel Away at Keeneland September in in his 2016 debut, going gate-to-wire over eventual Grade 2 winner 2003, where the Egans purchased her for $60,000. Takeover Target in the Danger’s Hour Stakes at Aqueduct. “She liked her a lot,” Egan said. “The fellow that was with her, “The Danger’s Hour, I mean, we knew when he left Florida, Mi- Paul Smith, was quite a horseman. Unfortunately, the good ones chelle Nihei had him just spot on,” Egan said. die, and he died about nine or 10 years ago, and my wife died on Macagone returned to the races in August after a three-month December 30. She was horse racing’s biggest fan.” break and won against open company in a Saratoga allowance. Egan carries on and is high on other foals out of Isabel Away, “The win in Saratoga was really great,” Egan said. “He used to including 3-year-old Red Knight with Bill Mott. winter (in Florida) at a little farm, and I’d be his hotwalker and his As for Macagone, a return trip to Aqueduct is in the plans. groom, and I tried to get my wife (Jaye) to walk one of his brothers “We’ve tentatively penciled in the Danger’s Hour again,” Egan who were a lot more docile, just so that if ever, she could lead him said.

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Haveyougoneaway Ch. m. Congrats—One Wise Cowgirl, Wiseman’s Ferry. Breeder: Andy and Susan Beadnell. Owner: Gary Barber and Sequel Racing. Trainer: Tom Morley. NorthNorth ShoreShore 2016 record: 8-5-2-0, $655,000. bloodstock 2016 stakes: Ballerina (G1), Honorable Miss (G2), Congratulations Luck Is Not A Business Plan Dancin Renee, American Beauty, Spring Fever. he tale of Haveyougoneaway was already fairly lengthy be- to all fore Andy and Susan Beadnell made the decision to trek PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT down from the Ridin-Hy Ranch Resort they operate in North Shore Equine Insurance offers policies with Warrensburg to Saratoga in late July for the Grade 2 Hon- the most established and trusted underwriters the 2016 Torable Miss. in the business, including: The Beadnells, who bred the daughter of Congrats out of the Mortality Wiseman’s Ferry mare One Wise Cowgirl, couldn’t wait to tell the New York-Bred Haveyougoneaway to race under the Sequel Racing banner – Gary Prospective Foal tale after Haveyougoneaway got up in deep stretch to win that after- Barber came along later in 2016 – and she made a splash in the re- noon – her second consecutive stakes and first graded stakes win. turn to her native state. Haveyougoneaway not only won the Hon- Stallion Infertility Championship “Get ready,” said Andy, a longtime friend and client of Joe and orable Miss but the Dancin Renee against state-breds prior to that Property & Casualty Anne McMahon of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds. “We effort and the Grade 1 Ballerina in front of a packed house on the Farm Packages sold her as a weanling for $50,000 in Kentucky, she came back here Travers Day card. Liability Policies Nominees! and (sold for $105,000) at the New York-bred yearling sale and Beadnell, who also bred 2016 champion New York-bred stee- then showed up in a 2-year-old sale and not-sold for ($100,000). plechaser Willow U, was on hand for both Saratoga victories that Alan Quartucci “There was a death in the ownership, she ended up in a disper- earned Haveyougoneaway a trip to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and NORTHSHORE BLOODSTOCK sal sale and two boys from Texas bought her for twelve-hundred Mare Sprint and consideration for the Eclipse Award as champion bucks. She ran down there in Arkansas and some other places. I female sprinter last year. Office: (212) 421-0043 | Mobile: (516) 680-6500 | Fax: (866) 346-6357 called them, Champion Racing, and tried to buy her back after she Haveyougoneaway was foaled at Bead Land and Cattle Compa- 1225 Franklin Ave. Suite 325 Garden City, NY 11530 won her first race to bring her back here. They said, ‘Partner up ny in Pottersville, and continued her improbable story by selling www.northshorebloodstock.com with us.’ Stupid me, I didn’t do it.” for $1.1 million to Japanese breeder Lake Villa Farm at Fasig-Tip- A partnership led by Becky Thomas eventually did purchase ton Kentucky’s November sale. She will be bred to Deep Impact.

Hot City Girl A.P. Indy Ch. f. City Zip—Noble Fire, Hook and Ladder. FEE $2,500LF Breeder: Eklektikos Stable. Owner: Lady Sheila Stable. DR LARGE Debit Account Trainer: Linda Rice. 2016 record: 4-1-0-2, $83,000. 2016 stakes: Union Avenue. » Top Three New York-Freshmen trike up a conversation with Sheila Rosenblum and it’s inev- itable that the topic will wind its away to her pride and joy, Sire by 2014 Earnings 2015 New York-bred champion and multiple graded stakes winner La Verdad. Not far behind in Rosenblum’s heart is » First-crop sire of back-to-back SW Syounger half-sister Hot City Girl. Hot City Girl carried the flag for Rosenblum’s Lady Sheila Sta- SPOOLED ($161,627) ble in 2016, winning the Union Avenue at Saratoga and placing in a pair of other stakes a season after being named champion New York-bred 3-year-old filly of 2015. Hot City Girl’s 4-year-old season » SW/G3pl bred on the identical started not long after she finished a game second to Birdatthewire and ahead of multiple Grade 1 winner Cavorting in the Grade 1 La The Union Avenue left Rosenblum equal parts excited and re- cross as Pulpit, Malibu Moon, Brea in late 2015 at Santa Anita. Hot City Girl then finished sixth, lieved, not that she saw much of the race huddled in her box with Mineshaft, Congrats and Flatter beaten 6 lengths, in the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel. knees together, arms around her legs and head down. Linda Rice, who trains Hot City Girl and guided La Verdad to The race unfolded perfectly for Hot City Girl, who took advan- a 16-for-25 career highlighted by the Eclipse Award for champion tage of a slow start by one of her expected pressers and sailed along Nominated to: TrueNicks, Breeders’ Cup & NY Stallion Stakes, NYTB&D Fund female sprinter in 2015, chalked up the Fritchie to Hot City Girl on the front end en route to a 1 3/4-length victory. being “over the top.” “We just ran her too many times,” Rice said. “So I sent her home “I was probably as nervous as ever,” Rosenblum said. and turned her out for three months. Frankly I told Sheila, ‘Look Bred by Mark Vondrasek’s Eklektikos Stable, New York’s breeder if we can go backward, we wouldn’t have run her in the Fritchie.’ ” of the year in 2015, Hot City Girl was foaled at Chester and Mary ORISKANY CREEK FARM Clinton, New York The time away paid off when Hot City Girl returned in the Broman’s Chestertown Farm. She’s one of four winners of four foals Inquiries to: Becky & Tim Czarnocki, Oriskany Creek Farm. (315) 838-8770. or Dancin Renee in early July. She finished third, behind fellow final- to race out of 2015 New York-bred broodmare of the year Noble ists Haveyougoneaway and Quezon, before turning the tables on Fire, the most recent win coming from Noble Freud in his debut Stallion Owner, Tom Roche/Carmalley Valley Farm (314) 954-2223, [email protected] the latter in the Union Avenue. Feb. 16 at Oaklawn Park. 44 45 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Does this make sense? Quezon . . . Ch. f., Tiz Wonderful—Kalookan Dancer, Olympio. It’s Our Program . . . Breeder: Apache Farm. Owner: Marc Keller. Trainer: Bob Ribaudo. It’s only an advantage if we hang on to it. 2016 record: 6-2-3-0, $224,000. 2016 stakes: Iroquois. emember Go Baby Go? The often-quoted and much-ma- I was born and raised in New York state. ligned slogan of Thoroughbred racing. You’ll still see it on bumper stickers, faded and curling, on the back of horse I live here, breed here, race here vans and dusty pick-up trucks. and I spend here. R There’s nothing easy about creating slogans or jingles but Tim Moriarty could have a second career. The New York-based breeder I would be honored to represent you provided five words of perfection when he summed up what it was at the upcoming Saratoga sales. like to breed Quezon, a 2014 and 2016 finalist. “It’s the equine American dream.” Tim runs Apache North, a 66-acre farm with a 10-stall barn in Mount Morris, where the horses are foaled. Tim’s parents, Jane and Bill, run the southern division in South Carolina, prepping the spent, she came out running, winning her debut and the Maid of homebreds for their careers. the Mist Stakes in 2014. It works. In 2014, they bred two finalists, Quezon and Wonder Quezon took a hiatus from championship talk in 2015, running Gal. The daughters of Tiz Wonderful enjoyed strong seasons back just once, winning the Bouwerie Stakes at Belmont Park. Making then and again in 2016 as Quezon won twice and Wonder Gal won up for lost time, she returned for a solid season in 2016, dispatch- once, both earned graded stakes black type for their ever-improv- 2210 Galway Road | Galway, NY 12074 ing allowance foes at Gulfstream Park in March and securing the ing pedigree pages. 516.782.3076 | [email protected] Iroquois Stakes at Belmont in October. In between, she finished “We’re small time, but it proves that if you focus on the breeding Coming soon: sgbloodstock.com and on the mare, anything’s possible,” Tim said. “From day one, fourth in the Critical Eye Stakes and second in the Dancin Renee, they get patted and led around. It really makes a big difference. Union Avenue and the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom. They go down south and get the same treatment from my parents In her career, Quezon has racked up five wins, three seconds Congratulations to all of tonight’s award recipients! and by the time they get to the sale they’re used to it all.” and two fourths in 10 starts for a cool $512,200. Marc Keller and his team were impressed, securing Quezon for “She’s tough to train, but you know, a good tough,” Ribaudo said. $90,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s New York-bred yearling sale. Money well Put that on a bumper sticker.

Congratulations to the connections of NEW YORK-BRED CHAMPION FINALISTS MIRAI & MISS FREEZE

MISS FREEZE Owners Joseph Bulger, Michael Imperio and DJC Racing Stables and trainer David Cannizzo Best wishes tonight and in 2017 Sallusto & Albina Marai purchased by Sallusto & Albina as a Yearling and Miss Freeze purchased as a Two-Year-Old.

MIRAI Owners Robert LaPenta and Madaket Stables and trainer Chad Brown

46 47 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS BURKE EQUINE Breakin The Fever Veterinary Care & Rehabilitation B. g. Roaring Fever—Breakers West, Rodeo. Breeder, owner and trainer: Debra Breed. www.burkeequinetherapy.com 2016 record: 7-6-0-0, $192,020. 2016 stakes: Hudson, George W. Barker, Leon Reed Memorial. BURK“AE Spa at the Spa” reakin The Fever has proven to be a remarkably consistent runner for breeders, owners, and trainers Debra and Ron- EQUINE ald Breed. In 2015, the son of Roaring Fever won eight of 13 races Band earned $188,061. Last year, his success continued as he won six of seven starts and banked an even more impressive $192,020. Ronald Breed’s connection to Breakin The Fever runs deep. He trained the gelding’s dam, Breakers West, and by chance, ended up owning her. “I trained (Breakers West) for a guy named Frank Casey,” Breed said. “She got hurt and she ran two or three times after that. She ran Breed’s decision to keep Breakin The Fever proved wise and second in an allowance, but she had a real bad knee. He ended up lucrative as the 5-year-old has earned $458,081 and won 15 races giving the horse to me and I ended up breeding her.” from 25 trips to the post – all but three in New York. All three of her foals to race – Logan’s Slogan and Ella’s Gone Although the blue-collar New York-bred does most of his work West are the others – have won, though Breakin The Fever is the at Finger Lakes, Breakin The Fever proved versatile when shipping star. From the outset, Breed could tell the foal of 2012 was special. to Belmont Park for the Hudson Handicap on Empire Showcase He loved the horse as a foal and knew the talent was there as he watched him grow. Day. Although he had several opportunities to sell Breakin The Fever He won by a half-length that day to collect his third stakes vic- early in his career, Breed wasn’t tempted. tory of the season, having previously won the George W. Barker Stakes and successfully defended his title in the Leon Reed Memo- “The first time I ran him at Saratoga, he ran third to Upstart,” he Targeted care to get your horse back said. “I had a guy offer me $30,000. I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me. rial Stakes back home. He just ran for $75,000 and you want to offer me $30,000?’ I had a “The older he’s getting, the better he’s getting. I really think he’s in the game and better than ever. couple people after that offer me $40,000, $50,000.” a great horse,” Breed said. POST-SURGICAL CARE PRE-CONDITIONING VIA TRAINING TRACK Doctor J Dub CELEBRATING THE AND GRASS GALLOPS B. g. Sharp Humor—Anotherbusride, Delineator. Breeder: Dr. Patricia Purdy, Edwin Edelberg and Mara Edelberg. GREATEST TRADITIONS Owner: Drawing Away Stable. Trainer: Jena Antonucci. In Thoroughbred Racing and Sales 2016 record: 17-2-4-4, $290,905. 2016 stakes: Turf Monster (G3), Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint. t was a year of firsts for Doctor J Dub and the team around APRIL 7-28, 2017 him. Everything started New Year’s Day when Drawing Away Spring Race Meet Stable claimed the bay gelding for $16,000 at Gulfstream Park. Making 16 more starts after he was claimed, the now 7-year- SEPTEMBER 11-24, 2017 Iold was consistently competitive against allowance company for September Yearling Sale much of the year despite only posting two victories. ECB COLD SALTWATER SPA The victories came in stakes, the Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint at OCTOBER 6-28, 2017 Gulfstream and the the Grade 3 Turf Monster at Parx. Fall Race Meet “His whole journey has been fun with us,” said trainer Jena Antonucci, who collected her first graded stakes win and helped Turf Monster, where he sprung another big upset at 23-1. Drawing Away record its first stakes win as a solo owner. “He’s NOVEMBER 7-18, 2017 “At Parx, he got things his way, and he has a never-say-die atti- November Breeding Stock Sale probably one of the most difficult horses we’ve ever had to train, tude, he’ll give you everything he has,” Antonucci said. “That day because he’s an overachiever in everything he wants to do.” obviously was special. He showed up and fought from gate to wire JANUARY 8-12, 2018 Doctor J Dub certainly has become an overachiever, having and really relaxed well under Sheldon (Russell) and did everything not made his debut until he was a 4-year-old, and not breaking January Horses of All Ages Sale the right way. He runs his best race relaxed. I think that was part of his maiden until August of his 5-year-old campaign. Now a graded stakes winner, he earned $290,905 in 2016. it, one of the big keys at Parx was Sheldon got him to relax.” Doctor J Dub won the Umphrey at 28-1 in July. He ventured Bred by Dr. Patricia Purdy and Edwin and Mara Edelberg, the AQUAPACER north after that for three allowance races at Saratoga – two against son of Sharp Humor was foaled at Patricia and Chris Purdy’s Ivy state-breds – the latter two of which came off the turf due to rain. League Farm in Ithaca. STOWE BURKE, DVM He’s one of three winners and the first stakes winner from three He didn’t win any of the three, but finished second and third in [email protected] · (518) 210-4322 the two main-track races. starters out of Anotherbusride, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Ta- Burke Equine is located 4 miles from Saratoga Race Course Doctor J Dub got back on the turf in September and won the li’sluckybusride. 48 49 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS

Mind Your Biscuits Ch. c. Posse—Jazzmane, Toccet. Breeder: Jumping Jack Racing. Owner: M. Scott Summers, Hope Summers, Daniel Summers, J Stables, Head of Plains Partners. Trainer: Robert Falcone Jr. 2016 record: 9-4-3-1, $740,400. 2016 stakes: Malibu (G1), Amsterdam (G2). hen Mind Your Biscuits won the Grade 2 Am- sterdam Stakes last July at Saratoga Race Course, co-owner Scott Summers’ career as a racehorse owner reached new heights. W“I’ve been coming here for so many years, and to have this expe- rience, I never, never would have thought about it,” Summers said. “I’ve been coming to Saratoga for at least 40 years and I’ve been owning horses for the last 10 or so. ‘Biscuits’ is the only horse I’ve had that’s performed at this level.” and daughter-in-law Hope, are in the ownership group and Chad Proud supporter of New York breeders Little did Summers know, winning the Amsterdam was just the now trains Mind Your Biscuits, recently taking over from Robert beginning for Mind Your Biscuits. In the rest of his 3-year-old sea- Falcone Jr. The family partnered with J Stables early in the venture son, the son of Posse finished second in the Grade 3 Gallant Bob and added Head of Plains Partners before the Breeders’ Cup. and proud supplier of the year-end awards Stakes at Parx before finishing third (moved up to second) behind “We were going to pinhook him and nobody wanted him,” Scott Drefong in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint in November. Mind Summers said. “We said, ‘All right, nobody wants him, we’ll race Your Biscuits closed 2016 by winning the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita Dec. 26. him,’ and that’s when we went to J Stables for the partnership and The adventure took another turn to start 2017 as Mind Your Bis- it worked out great. This is the first horse I’ve ever had that’s won a cuits won the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan March graded stakes race. It’s just an extraordinary experience.” 25, putting him in the discussion as the world’s top sprinter. It was Bred by Jumping Jack Racing and foaled at Sue and Gary Lun- his fifth win from 15 lifetime starts and put him over the $2 million dy’s Cedar Ridge Farm in Pine Plains, Mind Your Biscuits is one of mark in career earnings. three winners from three foals to race out of the unraced Toccet Mind Your Biscuits is a family affair. Scott’s sons Chad and Dan mare Jazzmane. Weekend Hideaway Ch. h. Speightstown—Apocalyptical, Wiseman’s Ferry. Breeder: Flying Zee Stable. Owner: Red and Black Stable. Trainer: Phil Serpe. 2016 record: 7-3-1-1, $303,000. 2016 stakes: Commentator, Affirmed Success. hil Serpe said it in passing last summer, it could have been before Weekend Hideaway won an allowance race at Sara- toga or after he won it. “He’s the last one. The last good Flying Zee horse.” PKnowing Serpe, he probably said it before and after. Indeed, Weekend Hideaway is the last one, the last good horse bred by the venerable New York racing and breeding operation of the late Carl Lizza. In 2016, Weekend Hideaway kept Flying Zee on people’s mind for another year, winning the Affirmed Success Stakes, Commen- tator Stakes, a tough Saratoga allowance and finishing third in the pe. They weren’t much. Grade 1 Vosburgh. Owned by Red and Black Stable and trained “The horses he first sent me, they had to do a relay race to win by Serpe, the sprinting son of Speightstown increased his career a race,” Serpe said. earnings to $874,532 with another stellar season. They would improve, and soon qualify for anchor legs anywhere Far from finished, Weekend Hideaway took a break after finish- they went. ing eighth in Penn National’s Fabulous Strike in November and has When Lizza died in 2011, Serpe arranged for Mike Hoffman’s now registered six breezes at Florida’s Gulfstream Park, including bullet 5-furlong drills March 15 and 22, preparing for his 7-year- Red and Black Stable to buy Weekend Hideaway as a yearling for old debut. $40,000 out of the Flying Zee dispersal. And it’s all because of Lizza, who bought his first horse in 1976 Weekend Hideaway made his debut at Saratoga in 2002 and by and went on to campaign champion Wayward Lass, Noble Nashua, the end of the meet he was a stakes winner, taking the David Stakes. Cosmonaut and others with several trainers. Since then, the cat-moving sprinter has won at least one stakes ev- Introduced by Bob Frieze, then Jerry Bailey’s agent, Serpe and ery season as he closes in on $1 million in earnings. Saratoga souvenirs, racing gifts & wearables Lizza met in Florida. They hit it off. Lizza sent some horses to Ser- Yes, indeed – the last one, the last good Flying Zee horse. 50 51 OLDER FEMALE FINALISTS OLDER FEMALE FINALISTS

Bar Of Gold Haveyougoneaway Dk. b./br. f., Medaglia d’Oro—Khancord Kid, Lemon Drop Kid. Ch. m. Congrats—One Wise Cowgirl, Wiseman’s Ferry. Breeder/Owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Breeder: Andy and Susan Beadnell. Trainer: John Kimmel. 2016 record: 8-2-0-3, $361,500. Owner: Gary Barber and Sequel Racing. Trainer: Tom Morley. 2016 stakes: Empire Distaff, Critical Eye. 2016 record: 8-5-2-0, $655,000. 2016 stakes: Ballerina (G1), Honorable Miss (G2), ohn Kimmel didn’t need convincing that Bar Of Gold would Dancin Renee, American Beauty, Spring Fever. become a stakes winner after watching the then 3-year-old New York-bred filly battle it out in the 2015 Test Stakes before he tale of Haveyougoneaway was already fairly lengthy be- giving it up late to future multiple Grade 1 winner Cavorting. fore Andy and Susan Beadnell made the decision to trek JKimmel was certain the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro he’d once down from the Ridin-Hy Ranch Resort they operate in pegged for two-turn route races, and even turf races, would be- Warrensburg to Saratoga in late July for the Grade 2 Hon- come a stakes winner. He predicted as much a few days after the Torable Miss. Test, standing in his Saratoga shedrow giving a tour and not in a The Beadnells, who bred the daughter of Congrats out of the boastful or braggadocious way – just matter of fact. Wiseman’s Ferry mare One Wise Cowgirl, couldn’t wait to tell the Haveyougoneaway to race under the Sequel Racing banner – Gary “It’s really weird for me because I thought distance would not be tale after Haveyougoneaway got up in deep stretch to win that after- Barber came along later in 2016 – and she made a splash in the re- a problem for her,” Kimmel said. “She’s breezed that way, galloped open her career. Bar Of Gold returned to open graded stakes com- noon – her second consecutive stakes and first graded stakes win. turn to her native state. Haveyougoneaway not only won the Hon- out in her breezes, she finishes her breezes great, great closing kick pany after the Critical Eye and managed two thirds from three “Get ready,” said Andy, a longtime friend and client of Joe and orable Miss but the Dancin Renee against state-breds prior to that and I thought Medaglia d’Oro out of a Lemon Drop Kid mare that starts before one more go against New York-breds in the Empire Anne McMahon of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds. “We effort and the Grade 1 Ballerina in front of a packed house on the won graded stakes on the grass going long, and I’ve got her sprint- Distaff. Stretched out to 1 1/16 miles, Chester and Mary Broman’s sold her as a weanling for $50,000 in Kentucky, she came back here Travers Day card. ing three-quarters.” homebred easily delivered the wow performance of the day when and (sold for $105,000) at the New York-bred yearling sale and Beadnell, who also bred 2016 champion New York-bred stee- Bar Of Gold, who still hasn’t set foot on a turf course in the she skipped over the slop to win by 18 lengths and stay perfect then showed up in a 2-year-old sale and not-sold for ($100,000). plechaser Willow U, was on hand for both Saratoga victories that afternoon, has managed to build a standout career with two stakes “There was a death in the ownership, she ended up in a disper- earned Haveyougoneaway a trip to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and wins, six graded-stakes placings and $729,000 in earnings through against New York-breds. sal sale and two boys from Texas bought her for twelve-hundred Mare Sprint and consideration for the Eclipse Award as champion 2016. Chester Broman bought Bar Of Gold’s granddam, Confidently, bucks. She ran down there in Arkansas and some other places. I female sprinter last year. Last year’s campaign began with two stakes losses, but improved at Keeneland in 2000 and she has produced major winners Cos- called them, Champion Racing, and tried to buy her back after she Haveyougoneaway was foaled at Bead Land and Cattle Compa- considerably with a win in the Critical Eye on the Empire Showcase mo Pirate, and Crackerjack Jones in addition to Bar Of Gold’s dam won her first race to bring her back here. They said, ‘Partner up ny in Pottersville, and continued her improbable story by selling card at Belmont Park. The 1-mile distance, which Kimmel thought Khancord Kid. The latter won a graded stakes before joining the with us.’ Stupid me, I didn’t do it.” for $1.1 million to Japanese breeder Lake Villa Farm at Fasig-Tip- might be “the outer limits of her effectiveness,” ran Bar Of Gold’s broodmare band and producing Bar Of Gold, who was working A partnership led by Becky Thomas eventually did purchase ton Kentucky’s November sale. She will be bred to Deep Impact. record against state-breds to 4-for-4, following three victories to toward a 2017 return to the races.

Flipcup B. m. Milwaukee Brew—Dream Affair, Touch Gold. Congratulations to Breeder: Team Penney Racing. Trainer: Bill Mott. Owner: Team Penney Racing, Wachtel Stable and Brous Stable. all New York breeders 2016 record: 7-1-1-2, $120,508. 2016 stakes: Arlington Matron (G3). eath, taxes and Flipcup as a finalist for champion New on a fantastic year! York-bred honors. All right, perhaps that’s a bit of a stretch, but four consecutive years of being a nominee in a state breed- And thanks to our Ding program that continues to churn out graded stakes winners clients for another great year. throughout North America is nothing to take lightly. Give us a call to see what we can do “This is her fourth year in a row, she was nominated as a 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-year-old as a finalist – I don’t think she’s going to win this for your breeding program!! ANDY AND SUSAN BEADNELL year either, she hasn’t won any of them – but I wonder if any other EDITION FARM horse has ever been nominated four years in a row,” said Shirl Pen- Four Footed Fotos EMPIRE EQUINES ney, who bred the Milwaukee Brew mare through his family’s Team an 11-day span at Saratoga. The Yaddo was Flipcup’s first start on MIKE MCMAHON (859) 983-7617 MCMAHON OF SARATOGA THOROUGHBREDS Penney Racing and campaigns her in partnership with Wachtel the grass, the only surface she hasn’t won a stakes (she was third in JAMIE HILL (859) 983-0515 Stable and Brous Stable. PARSONS AND HOWE the Via Borghese at Gulfstream Park Dec. 31) and a place where email: [email protected] Turns out Flipcup isn’t the only one, but she is in rare and dis- Penney hopes she can excel in 2017 and get level with King Kreesa. SEIDMAN STABLES tinguished company. “Right now this is probably her last year and we’ll breed her next A little research shows 2016 finalist King Kreesa as a nominee TEAM PENNEY RACING year,” Penney said. “The stat I’ve been given … it seems like there’s for the fifth consecutive year, along with four-time nominee Khara- www.mcmahonandhill.com fa. Lubash was a finalist four straight years from 2012 to 2015, only ever been five or six mares that have ever won a stakes race on while Eclipse Award winner Dayatthespa and multiple stakes win- all three surfaces, the dirt, turf and Poly. We’ve just missed a couple ner Willet were nominated three consecutive times in recent years. times on the grass, so our primary focus this year is to get a grass Flipcup landed on the list again in 2016 in part because of her stakes win so she can be one of those mares that have won a stakes season-opening victory in the Grade 3 Arlington Matron on the race on all three surfaces. Just something else to make her unique. PO BOX 4543 F 119 EAST MAIN STREET F MIDWAY, KY 40347 F 859 846 4020 F FAX 859 846 4015 Polytrack, a surface she’s excelled over, a good fourth in the Sarato- “We plan to keep her, breed her, I’ll keep her in New York and ga Dew on the dirt and a close second in the Yaddo on the turf in she’ll be part of the New York-bred program as a resident mare.” 52 53 OLDER MALE FINALISTS OLDER MALE FINALISTS

Breakin The Fever Royal Posse B. g. Roaring Fever—Breakers West, Rodeo. B. g. Posse—Struckbylightning, by Cryptoclearance. Breeder, owner and trainer: Debra Breed. Breeder: Richard Troncone and Richard Troncone Jr. 2016 record: 7-6-0-0, $192,020. Owner: Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and Gary Aisquith. 2016 stakes: Hudson, George W. Barker, Leon Reed Memorial. Trainer: Rudy Rodriguez. 2016 record: 9-5-4-0, $569,000. reakin The Fever has proven to be a remarkably consistent 2016 stakes: Empire Classic, Claiming Crown Jewel, runner for breeders, owners, and trainers Debra and Ron- Evan Shipman, Alydar, Mr. Sinatra. ald Breed. In 2015, the son of Roaring Fever won eight of 13 races he annual summer meeting at Saratoga Race Course is Band earned $188,061. Last year, his success continued as he won the pinnacle of racing in New York, so it’s appropriate that six of seven starts and banked an even more impressive $192,020. when trainer Rudy Rodriguez and owner Michael Dubb Ronald Breed’s connection to Breakin The Fever runs deep. He claimed New York-bred Royal Posse in May 2015, they trained the gelding’s dam, Breakers West, and by chance, ended up Thad the legendary upstate racetrack in mind. The son of Posse and owning her. the Cryptoclearance mare Struckbylightning showed a knack for “I trained (Breakers West) for a guy named Frank Casey,” Breed racing at Saratoga and also for going long, two points not lost on said. “She got hurt and she ran two or three times after that. She ran Breed’s decision to keep Breakin The Fever proved wise and Dubb. Royal Posse’s style can make Rodriguez and Dubb sweat a little, second in an allowance, but she had a real bad knee. He ended up lucrative as the 5-year-old has earned $458,081 and won 15 races “This horse loves Saratoga,” Dubb said last summer. “We knew but it works. giving the horse to me and I ended up breeding her.” from 25 trips to the post – all but three in New York. he was really a true two-turn, mile-and-an-eighth horse. Horses “He usually grinds the horses down, especially when he’s got a All three of her foals to race – Logan’s Slogan and Ella’s Gone Although the blue-collar New York-bred does most of his work like this don’t come along very often.” target,” Rodriguez said after Royal Posse won the Alydar at Sara- West are the others – have won, though Breakin The Fever is the The highlight of Royal Posse’s 2016 season came in October at at Finger Lakes, Breakin The Fever proved versatile when shipping toga. “He gives everything. He’s a very honest horse and he always star. From the outset, Breed could tell the foal of 2012 was special. Belmont Park when he defeated New York-bred champion 3-year- to Belmont Park for the Hudson Handicap on Empire Showcase tries.” He loved the horse as a foal and knew the talent was there as he old male finalist Governor Malibu in the $300,000 Empire Classic watched him grow. Day. Handicap on the Empire Showcase card. For the year, Royal Posse Rodriguez sent the gelding away from the comforts of the New Although he had several opportunities to sell Breakin The Fever He won by a half-length that day to collect his third stakes vic- won five of nine races and placed second four times. He earned York for his final start of 2016 in the $190,000 Claiming Crown early in his career, Breed wasn’t tempted. tory of the season, having previously won the George W. Barker $569,000, to push his career total to $1,018,120. Jewel at Gulfstream Park – a race he won in 2015 – and the gelding “The first time I ran him at Saratoga, he ran third to Upstart,” he Stakes and successfully defended his title in the Leon Reed Memo- Not bad for a horse who lost his first eight starts and has changed rewarded his connections with a half-length victory. said. “I had a guy offer me $30,000. I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me. rial Stakes back home. hands twice via the claim box – for $25,000 and $20,000. For his Bred by Richard Troncone and Richard Troncone Jr. and foaled He just ran for $75,000 and you want to offer me $30,000?’ I had a “The older he’s getting, the better he’s getting. I really think he’s new connections, he finished first or second in 14 consecutive at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, Royal Posse is one of four winners couple people after that offer me $40,000, $50,000.” a great horse,” Breed said. starts through 2016 (and won seven stakes). out of the unraced Struckbylightning.

Effinex Dk. b./br. h., Mineshaft—What A Pear, E Dubai. Breeder: Dr. Russell Cohen. Owner: Tri-Bone Stable. Trainer: Jimmy Jerkens. 2016 record: 8-2-1-1. $1,200,000. 2016 stakes: Oaklawn Handicap (G2), Suburban Handicap (G2). ull circle. Bred in New York, Effinex made 28 starts over three seasons, winning nine races for more than $3.3 mil- lion and returned for a stallion career in New York. Now, that’s a circle. FBred and owned by Dr. Russell Cohen and trained by Jimmy Jerkens, the son of Mineshaft added the Grade 2 Oaklawn and Suburban handicaps in 2016. In addition to those scores, Effinex finished second in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup and third in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap. “It’s a ride every owner, every person in this business should experience,” Cohen said. “My philosophy has always been and will Switched to Jerkens, Effinex put talent and durability to good continue to be – reach for the stars, don’t settle for mediocrity. use from there, running 12 times in 2014, eight times in 2015 and Sometimes it hasn’t worked out, sometimes is has, this time was eight times in 2016 while traversing the country in search of big the wildest of all the rides.” paydays, including finishing second in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Effinex began his career at Aqueduct on a February afternoon Classic behind Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. in 2014, finishing fifth at 36-1 against New York-bred maidens. He “All you can base it on is DNA,” Cohen said. “I’ve had that fam- returned to break his maiden (through disqualification) in his next start for trainer Richard Demola. Effinex, next running for trainer ily for three generations and they’ve all been sound. You breed to David Smith, came back and won against New York-bred allow- sound stamina lines and hope for the best, but who would have ance horses in his third start. ever expected him to turn out to be the monster that he was?” “You figure out if a horse really has a little bit of talent, not when By March 22, standing at Questroyal Stud North, the $3.3 mil- they win, even if it’s the first time out of the box, it’s when they run lion earner had five mares in foal. against winners, any kind of winners,” Cohen said. “When he won Cohen laughed. 800.925.2913 SequelNewYork.com that New York-bred allowance race, I knew he had some talent.” “The story goes on.” 54 55 OLDER MALE FINALISTS Upstart Dk. b./br. r. Flatter–Party Silks, Touch Gold. EQUINE HOSPITAL IN SARATOGA Breeder: Joanne Nielsen. Owner: Ralph Evans & WinStar Farm. Trainer: Rick Violette Jr. 2016 record: 4-1-0-2, $482,500. 2016 stakes: Razorback Handicap (G3). Our experienced team of alph Evans summed up what it takes for an owner and a veterinarians and technicians trainer to catch lightning in a bottle. provide the highest level of care to “It was one of the rare occasions where my pedigree preference aligned with (trainer Rick Violette’s) examina- all breeds and disciplines of horses. Rtion of the horse,” Evans said of the day they bought Upstart. The light-moving dark bay son of Flatter cost $130,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale of 2013 and banked a cool $1.7 million over three seasons at the sport’s highest WE OFFER SERVICES IN: level – now that’s alignment. Upstart earned New York-bred titles as champion 2-year-old • Ambulatory • Diagnostic imaging and 3-year-old and achieves the rare distinction of being a champi- And that was it, the final stop on a $1.7 million tour. onship finalist in each season he raced. Upstart didn’t run in a New York-bred restricted race all sea- •Internal Medicine • Laboratory In 2016, he took his slingshot and marched into the woods yet son, earning $482,500 in four starts. Actually, in his 15-race career, • Podiatry • Regenerative medicine again. Upstart faced New York-breds twice, in his first two starts back in • Reproduction• Sports Medicine Venturing to Oaklawn Park for his seasonal debut, Upstart ral- 2014. After that, the hard-trying ridgling chased the sport’s best, lied wide and resolutely to capture the Grade 3 Razorback Handi- • Surgery hitting the board in six Grade 1 stakes along the way. cap in March. A month later, he returned for the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap, but only managed a fifth behind fellow New York-bred Somebody had to rumble with the likes of Triple Crown win- finalist Effinex (in Arkansas remember). Freshened, Upstart came ner American Pharoah and Grade 1 winner Frosted. Upstart did it back to finish third in Frosted’s freak-out in the Metropolitan with aplomb. Retired after the Whitney, Upstart began his stallion 63 HENNING ROAD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866 Handicap at Belmont Park. Two months later, Violette tried again, career at Kentucky’s Airdrie Stud in 2017. (518) 583-7273 • FAX (518) 583-4388 sending Upstart out for the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational at Sara- “He wasn’t a million-dollar yearling and he wasn’t a million-dol- toga where he made up 13 lengths on Frosted, finishing third in lar 2-year-old in training,” Evans said. “He clearly exceeded our ex- another gallant effort. pectations.”

Weekend Hideaway ANNIVERSARY Ch. h. Speightstown—Apocalyptical, Wiseman’s Ferry. 2000 ATTORNEYS | 38 LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE ˚ Breeder: Flying Zee Stable. Owner: Red and Black Stable. Trainer: Phil Serpe. 2016 record: 7-3-1-1, $303,000. 2016 stakes: Commentator, Affirmed Success. hil Serpe said it in passing last summer, it could have been before Weekend Hideaway won an allowance race at Sara- toga or after he won it. “He’s the last one. The last good Flying Zee horse.” PKnowing Serpe, he probably said it before and after. Greenberg Traurig is proud to support Indeed, Weekend Hideaway is the last one, the last good horse New York Thoroughbred Breeders. bred by the venerable New York racing and breeding operation of the late Carl Lizza. We salute your dedication to the advancement In 2016, Weekend Hideaway kept Flying Zee on people’s mind for another year, winning the Affirmed Success Stakes, Commen- of Thoroughbred breeding and racing in tator Stakes, a tough Saratoga allowance and finishing third in the pe. They weren’t much. New York State. Grade 1 Vosburgh. Owned by Red and Black Stable and trained “The horses he first sent me, they had to do a relay race to win by Serpe, the sprinting son of Speightstown increased his career a race,” Serpe said. earnings to $874,532 with another stellar season. They would improve, and soon qualify for anchor legs anywhere Far from finished, Weekend Hideaway took a break after finish- they went. ing eighth in Penn National’s Fabulous Strike in November and has When Lizza died in 2011, Serpe arranged for Mike Hoffman’s now registered six breezes at Florida’s Gulfstream Park, including bullet 5-furlong drills March 15 and 22, preparing for his 7-year- Red and Black Stable to buy Weekend Hideaway as a yearling for old debut. $40,000 out of the Flying Zee dispersal. 54 STATE STREET | 6TH FLOOR | ALBANY, NY 12207 | 518.689.1400 And it’s all because of Lizza, who bought his first horse in 1976 Weekend Hideaway made his debut at Saratoga in 2002 and by GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP | ATTORNEYS AT LAW | WWW.GTLAW.COM the end of the meet he was a stakes winner, taking the David Stakes. and went on to campaign champion Wayward Lass, Noble Nashua, Greenberg Traurig is a service mark and trade name of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and Greenberg Trau- rig, P.A. ©2016 Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Attorneys at Law. All rights reserved. Contact: Christopher J. Cosmonaut and others with several trainers. Since then, the cat-moving sprinter has won at least one stakes ev- Del Giudice in Albany at 518.689.1400. °These numbers are subject to fluctuation. 28840 Introduced by Bob Frieze, then Jerry Bailey’s agent, Serpe and ery season as he closes in on $1 million in earnings. Lizza met in Florida. They hit it off. Lizza sent some horses to Ser- Yes, indeed – the last one, the last good Flying Zee horse. 56 57 CHAMPION STEEPLECHASER Willow U B. m., Utopia—Overextended, Entrepreneur. Breeder: Andy Beadnell. Owner: Check Mark Stables. Trainer: Richard Valentine. 2016 record: 5-2-0-1, $41,000. 2016 stakes: Springdale Stakes. Our readers mean iz Carey read past performances, studied pedigrees and analyzed videos, just like every owner thinking about claiming a horse at Saratoga in the summer of 2015. But, perhaps, her criteria was different. BSee, Carey was looking for a steeplechase horse. She found one in Willow U. your business “I saw this classy filly win a good race,” Carey said. “She was pretty and calm in the winner’s circle and I fell for her.” Carey rattled off other attributes – kind eye, sensible, athletic, correct, strong quarters, wide chest… Put your stallion, farm or business in The Saratoga Special. Two starts later, Carey’s Check Mark Stables and trainer Richard Marks Tod Valentine claimed the daughter of Utopia for $35,000. Two months “Richard’s ‘Oh no’s and silences were pretty frightening, but THE place to advertise all season long at Saratoga. later, a quick transition, she finished second in her hurdle debut at when he cried, ‘Willow, it’s Willow U! 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58 59 TRAINER OF THE YEAR JOCKEY OF THE YEAR Rudy Rodriguez Irad Ortiz Jr. hile it wasn’t quite the Travers of 2014 or 2013 – and he great Ramon Dominguez won four consecutive jock- definitely not a dead heat as in 2012 – the race for eys’ awards for New York-bred success, dominating the leading New York-bred trainer was pretty tight by 2009-12 seasons before being forced into retirement by an the end of the year. injury. Judging from the last four years, the Hall of Famer WRudy Rodriguez trained the earners of $3,218,847 to edge Todd Tmay have had a difficult time defending as brothers Irad Ortiz Jr. Pletcher by less than $400,000. Three-time defending champion and Jose Ortiz have shared the championship and seem unlikely to Linda Rice settled for third this time around, though she outpaced relinquish it anytime soon. the top two in victories with 66 to 48 for Rodriguez and 46 for Irad claimed the crown in 2013, younger brother Jose grabbed Pletcher. Then again, nobody collected New York-bred wins like it in 2014 and 2015. As for 2016, Irad snatched it back with $6.71 the Englehart family. Jeremiah won 122 races with state-breds million in purse earnings to Jose’s $6.48 million. Jose collected 22 while his father Chris went to 101. more New York-bred wins, but lost the money race thanks in large Rodriguez wears the crown, however, thanks to a balanced at- part to Irad’s partnership with stakes-winning machine Royal Pos- tack and standout years from championship finalists Bonita Bianca se and two Grade 1 placings aboard Upstart. Marks Tod

Tod Marks Tod The brothers even shared male-turf finalist King Kreesa, with and Royal Posse. A 2-year-old filly, the former won three of four, hind his brother’s 351, and was second by purse earnings, to Javier each guiding the veteran to a stakes win by a nose – Irad in the placed in a Grade 2 stakes and earned $276,000. Her polar oppo- award. “We’re very grateful. We just try to keep up with everything Castellano. The 24-year-old won the Belmont Stakes, his first win site, 5-year-old veteran Royal Posse collected five wins and four and continue working hard and if things like that happen then it’s a Forbidden Apple in July and Jose in the West Point in August. in a Triple Crown race, with Creator and picked up further Grade seconds in nine starts while piling up earnings of $569,000 – all in plus for all of us. We’ve got a lot of people working very hard for us The banner season continued Ortiz’s climb to the top of the na- 1 wins with Lady Eli, Dacita and Pretty City Dancer. He won four stakes company. He won his last four, capped by the $300,000 Em- and you’ve got to give all the credit to them.” tional jockey colony. He rode his first North American winner in pire Classic at Belmont Park in October and the $190,000 Claiming Rodriguez was born in Mexico, and came to the United States in 2011 and has been on an upward trajectory ever since. The native graded stakes with Camelot Kitten and even went home to Puerto Crown Jewel at Gulfstream in December. Remove him from the the 1980s to work on fruit and vegetable farms in Florida. He made of Puerto Rico won 151 races that first season, and has topped that Rico where he won two Grade 1 stakes at Camarero in December. barn, and this article is about Pletcher. his way to the racetrack and worked as an exercise rider for Howie figure in each subsequent season – 152, 224, 290, 300 and 313 wins Ortiz rode 13 of the 40 finalists for New York-bred champion- Based in New York year-round, Rodriguez set career-highs in Tesher, Richard Dutrow, his son Rick Jr., Bobby Frankel and others. in 2016. His mounts have earned more than $20 million in each of ships, not counting steeplechaser Willow U. The steeplechase ca- total wins (147) and purses earned ($7.9 million) in 2016. In addi- Rodriguez won 221 races as a jockey, 34 in his rookie season of the past three seasons. reer will have to wait awhile. tion to the top two, graded stakes winners Sassicaia, Arella Rock- 1992, but was used more often for morning works than afernoon Coming off a 2015 season with six Grade 1 wins and a Saratoga Trained by Rudy Rodriguez, older male finalist Royal Posse and star and Heaven’s Runway helped fuel the success. races. In 2008, he won 25 races including a win aboard Frost Giant riding championship, Ortiz solidified his place among the nation’s Ortiz teamed up six times, for four wins and two seconds. They “That’s good to know and a good thing to do, but it’s not some- in the Grade 1 Suburban. He switched to training in 2010 and re- top jockeys with a strong 2016. won the Mr. Sinatra in April, the Alydar in August, the Evan Ship- thing you think about,” Rodriguez said of winning the New York cently passed 700 wins. He finished third in the 2016 national standings by wins, be- man in September and Empire Classic in October.

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60 61 BREEDER OF THE YEAR

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62 63 As the major sponsor of tonight’s ceremony, the New York Thoroughbred Breeding & Development Fund honors and congratulates all award nominees for their outstanding achievements.

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